Pixel Forest, Pipilotti Rist
The New Museum
October 26, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Pixel Forest, the first comprehensive survey of Rist’s work in New York, occupies the three main floors of the museum. It includes early single-channel videos from the 1980s investigating the female body in popular culture, as well as her most recent all-encompassing video-installation environments, including mood-enhancing musical scores. These dream-like pieces bring unexpected encounters with texture, form, and the living environment. Curated by Massimilio Gioni, the exhibit exemplifies Rist’s successful fusion between the biological and electronic.
Read more about the exhibition at the New Museum’s website here.
Pippilotti Rist (b. 1962, Switzerland) lives and works in Zurich. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented internationally at venues including Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Hayward Gallery, London, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2011); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX , among many others. Rist was awarded the Zurich Festival Prize, the Harper’s Bazaar Art China Prize, and the Joan Miró Prize.
Press:
New York Times | Art Net | Inexhibit | Time Out | Financial Times | Bedford & Bowery
Image: Installation view: “Pipilotti Rist: Dein Speichel ist mein Taucheranzug im Ozean des Schmerzes” [Your Saliva is my Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain], Kunsthaus Zürich.
Photo: Lena Huber, Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine