James Casebere and Leandro Erlich will be featured in Lifelike, an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition, which is curated by Siri Engberg, highlights an international selection of artists whose practices engage commonplace objects and situations to create effects that are startlingly realistic, often playful and sometimes surreal. Lifelike opens on February 25th and will be on view through May 27, 2012. A Walker-produced catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Lifelike features artists who use scale, unusual materials and sly contextual devices to reveal the manner in which their subjects’ “authenticity” is manufactured. The works featured focus on handmade, labor-intensive practices rather than using technological enhancements, thus transforming the ordinary into beguiling objects, imbued with an arresting sense of humanity, narrative and metaphor. The exhibition includes Leandro Erlich's Subway (2010) and James Casebere's Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #8 (2010), pictured above. Lifelike is scheduled to travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and the Blanton Museum of Art of the University of Texas at Austin.
On the occasion of the opening of Lifelike, James Casebere will be speaking at the Walker, engaging with exhibition curator Siri Engberg and Michael Duncan, the Los Angeles-based critic, independent curator and corresponding editor for Art in America, for a conversation about the role of the real in contemporary art. The event will take place on February 25, 2012 at 2pm at the Walker Cinema. For further information on the talk and to purchase tickets, please visit the event listing on the Walker Art Center website.
For further information on the exhibition, please visit the Walker Art Center website.