Hadley + Maxwell
February 13, 2010 — March 13, 2010
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Hadley + Maxwell Installation view Foreground: The Jury, Like the Chorus, Draws its Voice from the Thickness of the Air, 2009
| Hadley + Maxwell When the Horizon is Upended, 2010 Altered antique tables, magazine, crochet doily, book, mirror, paper doily, hand-carved wood figure, oil paint | Hadley + Maxwell Baroque Baroque (for Lady Mitford), 2009 Single channel video projecton, tripod, mirror, 9.13 looped. Edition of 3 |
BAROQUE BAROQUE
Opening reception Saturday February 13, 3 to 6 pm. Artists in attendance.
Known for their collaboration on several extended multi-media projects, Hadley + Maxwell release the aesthetic properties of objects, images, and concepts, putting them to new use. Their work highlights and celebrates shifts in meaning.
Elements of Hadley + Maxwell’s cumulative installation 1 + 1 – 1 (2007-2009) were seen at the gallery in 2008 and again within the complete ensemble in Nomads at the National Gallery of Canada last summer. Several works were acquired by the museum subsequently.
Hadley + Maxwell are graduates of Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art and Design and completed their Masters of Arts in Communications at the Swiss European Graduate School in 2004. Born in 1973 and 1966 respectively, the duo has created film sets, opera and dance productions, as well as conceptual works in all media. In 2005 they were recipients of the prestigious VIVA award. They have lived in Berlin since 2006.
In the past year Hadley + Maxwell have shown their work in solo exhibitions at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam and the Kunstverein, Göttingen. Group exhibitions in 2008-9 include: Pamona College Museum, Los Angeles, How Soon in Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Nomads, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, There is No Audience, Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Spain, and The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona. They are currently participating in An Invitation to an Infiltration organized by guest curator Eric Fredericksen for Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad (until February 28th).
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Hadley + Maxwell