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| ELLEN HARVEY: NEW IS OLD August 8 - October 8, 2003 Reception: August 8, 2003, 7pm. Laboratorium, Ujazdowski Castle In Warsaw most things that look old are really new. Like Ujazdowski Castle, whose reconstruction was only completed in the early 1980s. The only original structure is the Laboratorium outbuilding which looks both much newer and less glamorous. "New is Old" takes what was a disused storage space in Laboratorium and makes it look its age. At the same time, it tries to make the outside and inside of the space match the castle's neoclassical facade. The walls of the space are painted with watercolors to simulate age. The outline of a decorative architectural scheme is painted in white on the interior and exterior walls. The decoration is completed by a series of seven small oil paintings in faux-old gold frames of polaroids taken of the rooms in Ujazdowski Castle. The rooms chosen are all aggressively modern in style and are ones to which the public has no access. "New is Old" was produced in connection with a two-month residency at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, in Warsaw, Poland through Art in General's Eastern European Residency Exchange Program. The project was curated by Ika Sienkiewicz Nowacka. A brochure of the project will be available shortly. Ellen Harvey lives and works in New York. Her other solo exhibitions this year were "Context is Everything" at Mullerdechiara Gallery in Berlin and "A Whitney for the Whitney at Phillip Morris" at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris. Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski Center for Contemporary Art Uzjazdowski Castle Al. Ujazdowski 6 00-461 Warsaw, Poland Contact: Ika Sienkiewicz Nowacka Tel: +48 22 625 65 87 ika@csw.art.pl |
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