SELECTED WORKS BY Goshka Macuga
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Goshka Macuga
A Time to Live, A Time to Die
2005
hand tooled leather in tray frame
52 x 146 cm |
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Taking her sourced images from publications, and reactivating them in tooled leather, Goshka Macuga’s A Time To Live, A Time To Die replicates the authoritative material of book covers. Creating a double entendre ‘cover version’, Macuga’s drawing is a composite of other artists’ work, establishing a new context for image interpretation via juxtaposition of chance selection: the girl taken from Picasso, the book from Max Ernst, and birds from images from the 1905 Russian Revolution. Appropriating and reordering these disparate elements, Macuga constructs her own suggestive narrative based on an eclectic and disjointed history. Indelibly engraved on skin, A Time To Live, A Time To Die literally frames the ingrained fabric of memory as tractile experience. |
Goshka Macuga
Library Table
2005
oak table, leather bound books, customised lamps
140 x 206 cm |
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Goshka Macuga
Madame Blavatsky
2007
Carved wood, fibreglass, clothes, chairs
114.3 x 190.5 x 73.6 cm |
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Goshka Macuga
Study for a portrait of Lord Byron (Lord Byron Table)
2006
Wood, paint, ink, pen nibs, scissors, paper and glass
100 x 150 cm |
 
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ARTIST INFORMATION
ARTICLES
Goshka Macuga at Transmission
Homeless Furniture is a site-specific installation by the Polish-born artist Goshka Macuga. Specificity is key to Macuga's practice, not only in engaging the space itself but also the wider artistic community, each becoming an integral part of the creative process. For Transmission Gallery, Macuga has selected works by local artists which she has displayed in assorted cabinets and curio-boxes, provoking interesting questions on the making, viewing and ownership of work.
These wooden cabinets have an antiquated feel, conjuring up images of dusty museum displays. However, this idea is soon shattered when encountering some of the works on offer. A bubblegum dinosaur, a knitted poster and collaged waterbottles are just a few of the curios selected, all of which embody a raw quality, contrasting nicely with the structures that house them. These cabinets are propped and stacked, resulting in a concentrated composition which diagonally slices the gallery space.
Within this framework a dialogue is created, succeeding most where the cabinets and works fuse, either on a physical or interpretive level. The former is manifested through Macuga's seamless propping and positioning of certain pieces, making the distinction between work and construction difficult. This is evident when considering a section of Karla Black's floor piece, which seems disjointed and distant from its previous sprawling form. However, it is the very sectioning of the work, its new size and structure, which makes it possible to be viewed as both a work and a construction, blurring the boundaries in the process.
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Source: www.recirca.com
Goshka Macuga: Picture Room
As the first exhibition of 2003 Gasworks Gallery has commissioned a major new project by Goshka Macuga. The project will involve the recreation of a section of Sir John Soane's Museum at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, the famous 'Picture Room', inside Gasworks Gallery. Within this facsimile, Macuga will curate an exhibition of artworks from thirty collaborating artists.
Macuga's work encompasses sculpture and installation and explores the boundaries that define exhibition structures. Her practices seeks to put the categories of curator and gallery into a new relationship with each other by providing sculptural environments for the exhibition of other people's work. Macuga's practice positively challenges the notion of relationships between artists and curators, examines the importance of and the problematic issues inherent in authorship and explores the role of the gallery within both the curatorial and art-making process.
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Source: www.gasworks.org.uk
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