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Lara Schnitger; My other car is a broom

Finally back in Holland! Stroom Den Haag presents the exhibition ‘My other car is a broom’ by the Dutch artist Lara Schnitger (1969, lives and works in Los Angeles). The presentation was previously on view in Magasin 3 in Stockholm (Sweden). Lara Schnitger’s work is characterized by an inventive use of textiles. She uses pieces of fabric to create both intimate sculptures and architectural installations. Her work, in which texts also play an important role, deals with eroticism, humour and politics. Richard Julin, the curator of the exhibition in Stockholm, writes about her: ‘Schnitger is a vital part of a young flourishing art scene in L.A. that is very active and multi-faceted. Her sculptures and installations combine a feeling of the metropolis with that of home-made craft.’

The title of the show, ‘My other car is a broom’, is taken from one of the texts Schnitger incorporated in the installation ‘Gridlock’. A large network made of fabric features numerous bumper sticker texts referring, amongst others, to the election campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry (Schnitger was very active in her support for the latter). The work also refers to Japanese construction sites and prayer flags Schnitger saw during her travels in Tibet. Read the entire article here Source: stroom.nl

Lara Schnitger: Triple Candie / Anton Kern

In the hands of Harlem, Holland-born artist Lara Schnitger, the Harlem gallery Triple Candie resembles a crime scene, all wrapped up in that familiarly forbidding yellow tape. But instead of the warning “POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS,” Schnitger’s wraps contain text fragments familiar to surreptitious late-night websurfers: “POPPIN’ FOAMING FANNIES,” for instance. The euphemistic language of fetish porn frames the viewer’s every move at Triple Candie; you can hardly concentrate on Schnitger’s equally explicit sculptures without glancing up to read “SMELL MY PIE SWEET MEAT” or “TRIPLE CANDIE” (a coy demonstration the gallery’s own orgiastic implications for the creative/dirty-minded) from the mock police tape that hangs in the air like a static news ticker broadcasting the libidinous fantasies of each visitor.

Schnitger’s work is the subject of concurrent gallery shows at Triple Candie and at Anton Kern Gallery; her eccentric, erotic sculptures are the main event in each. Her sculptural m.o. is to wrap a network of wooden planks in fabric, sometimes bearing color-coded associations—pantyhose brown, pink (common porn buzzterm for pussy, see PinkCandyShavers.com, PinkBabes.net, and GiveMePink.com)—and to accessorize with lace, tassels, “wads” of cotton, and fake hair (bush?). Several of these vaguely anthropomorphic structures are enveloped in transparent Lycra, revealing their wooden guts. Others wear uniforms made from opaque fabrics: silk scarves, dishtowels, plaids, sheets with cherry patterns (get it?). Read the entire article hereSource: thebrooklynrail.org

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