Waiting Room  

Artist
Nathan Gulick

Opening  
Friday, April 19th 2019 from 5 - 8 pm

Collaborartion
The Undergang Armchair

More information
www.nathangulick.com

Links
The Undergang Armchair
Cultural Bandwidth
Facebook
Idoart

Supported by
Statens Kunstfond, Det Obelske Familiefond, Beckett Fonden &
Københavns Kommune - Rådet for Visuel Kunst

            EN
Nathan Gulick’s exhibition Waiting Room conflates the disparate intimacies of two kinds of spaces – the professional waiting room and a storage area in the basement of Gulick’s childhood home in the Midwest of America. With Waiting Room, Gulick wishes to reason with the vehicles in which we preserve our stories, and imbue objects, photographs, and other personal signifiers with importance. 

Further, he seeks to make apparent the strategies at play in the everyday spaces in which we may encounter others with stories of their own.

In a waiting room, one might find themselves in limbo with a group of strangers awaiting a diagnosis or information relating to one’s interior self – an intimate yet public space, where the signifiers of a broadly generic kind of design are employed. On the other hand, in the personal space of a storage room that for many years collected abandoned personal detritus and memories, one encounters a different psychological and spatial experience – a private room, not shown to guests, filled with photographic evidence of a life once lived.

Each of these spaces gathers a collection of stories unknown: What do we share with these objects imbued with a personal history? Is each object as mute as a group of intimate strangers? Maybe it is the perceived patina and age to the photograph – or the wrinkling of the skin, the clothes we wear – that signals time past. Or are these cues lost hopelessly – disappearing and misunderstood in personal biography, and cultural specificity? In Waiting Room, Gulick will seek to explore and problematize these connections and relationships further.

Nathan Gulick (born 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York, and graduated with a MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2018 where he was awarded the Otis Academic Excellence Award. He has exhibited at Mandujano/Cell and FAR Bazaar – Foundation Art Resources in Los Angles, and ICE Gallery in San Diego, California. In late 2018 he participated in the group exhibition CTRL+Z at Roger’s Office in Los Angeles, and in March of 2019 exhibited as part of the Other Places Art Fair in San Pedro, California.

Nathan Gulick will in connection with his exhibition have an artist talk. c4 projects and The Undergang Armchair invites the audience to come and listen to Gulick tell about his practice, the exhibition, and how it is to work as an artist in Los Angeles. The Undergang Armchair will publish the artist talk as the next episode of their podcast series.

The Undergang Armchair is a podcast series which, as part of Cultural Bandwidth, makes podcasts on art and cultural production. They conduct interviews with national and international contemporary artists and people working in the cultural field. The Undergang Armchair is based in Copenhagen and they publish a new podcast twice a month.

            DK
Nathan Gulicks udstilling Waiting Room sammensætter intimiteter fra to forskellige rum – venteværelset og det opbevaringsrum som befandt sig i kælderen af Gulicks barndomshjem i den Amerikanske Midtvest. Med Waiting Room ønsker Gulick at forholde sig til historiens, fotografiet og objekternes præserverende mekanismer, og søger derved at afdække de strategier, som anvendes i rum hvor møder mellem mennesker finder sted.

I venteværelsets limbo, hvor man samles side om side med fremmede, der venter på en diagnose eller information omkring deres indre liv – et intimt rum, dog offentligt, hvor en bred vifte af ellers usynlige fortællinger synliggøres. I kontrast til det, finder man opbevaringsrummet, der indeholder mange års efterladte personlig minder. Her møder man en anden mental- og rumlig oplevelse – et lukket rum, som ikke bliver vist til gæster, fyldt op med beviser fra et levet liv.

Hvert af disse rum gemmer på en samling af ufortalte historier: Hvad deler vi med disse objekter, der er gennemsyret af vores personlige historier? Er hvert objekt lige så stum som en gruppe fremmede? Måske røber objekternes patina deres alder og tiden som er passeret, eller måske er det rynkerne i huden eller det tøj vi bærer? Måske er referencerne tabt – forsvundne og misforståede i vores personlige fortælling eller kulturens specificitet. Disse og andre spørgsmål udforsker og bearbejder Gulick yderligere i Waiting Room.

Nathan Gulick (født 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan) bor og arbejder i Los Angeles, Californien. Han modtog sin BFA fra School of Visual Arts i New York og modtog sin MFA fra Otis College of Art and Design i 2018, hvor han også fik tildelt Otis Academic Excellence Award. Han har udstillet hos Mandujano / Cell og FAR Bazaar – Foundation Art Resources i Los Angles, og ICE Gallery i San Diego, Californien. I slutningen af 2018 deltog han i gruppeudstillingen CTRL + Z på Roger’s Office i Los Angeles, Han udstillede i marts 2019 som en del af Other Places Art Fair i San Pedro, Californien.

I forbindelse med udstillingen afholder Nathan Gulick en artist talk. c4 projects inviterer i samarbejde med The Undergang Armchair publikum indenfor til en snak med Gulick om hans praksis, udstillingen og om hvordan det er at arbejde som kunstner i Los Angeles. Artist talken udgives i næste episode af The Undergang Armchair podcast serie. 

The Undergang Armchair er en del af Cultural Bandwidth, de laver podcasts om kunst og kulturproduktion, hvor de interviewer samtidskunstnere og andre kulturpersoner fra ind- og udland. The Undergang Armchair har base i København og udkommer med en ny podcast to gange om måneden. 

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