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Charbel Ackermann
Charbel Ackermann is a Swiss born artist who lives and
works in London. His work has recently been shown at the Launch Pad
Gallery/Building Centre, London (“Island Block”, solo show, 2007);
L’EST, London (2007); Michael H. Shamberg’s, Turtle Salon at the
nüans Ausstellungsraum, Düsseldorf (2007); Irvine Contemporary
Arts, Washington DC (two exhibitions 2006); The Gallery at the
Warehouse, Washington, DC (“M2”,
Solo show, 2006); The Drawing Center, New York (2005); I.D.E.A.London
at the I.C.A., Institute of Contemporary Arts; London (2005);
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (two group exhibitions 2003, 2004/05);
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Los Angeles (“Topographies” group
show with John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow, Ed Ruscha, Charbel Ackermann,
Jessica Bronson, Ingrid Calame, Charles La Belle, Rigo 23, Lordy
Rodriguez, Shirley Tse, and Tam Van Tran etc, 2004); Walter and McBean
Galleries, San Francisco (2004); and Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford
University, Palo Alto (2003). His work has been reviewed by The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Art Week,
and was featured in Blueprint Magazine, Drawing Papers (The
Drawing Center, NY), and in Topographies (Fellows of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles).
Charbel Ackermann was educated at Goldsmiths College,
London (MA Fine Arts), and at the San Francisco Art Institute (BA Fine
Arts). He has participated at panel discussions and symposia at Tate
Britain (With A Single Mark, Models and Practice of Drawing, May 2006
at Tate Britain, with Catherine de Zegher, Richard Tuttle, Luis
Camnitzer, Avis Newman, Lawrence Rinder, Charbel Ackermann, Michael
Newman, Briony Fer, James Elkins, Peter Hallward, Jean Fisher, Jimmie
Durham). He was a Visiting Artist at UCSC, University of California
Santa Cruz (2007).
He uses a variety of media, including drawing,
installation, sculpture, electronic media and text. His work has
investigated architecture, notably the changing images of an urban
building over its life time (“Island Block”, 2007), and monumental
architecture and memory (“M2”, 2006). In “The New
Geometry” (a series of installations 2003–05) he presented a system of
geometry with global scope based on an in-depth exploration of the
geographic Axis of Evil. “Eden au Lac” (2004) is a mural drawing made
only with barcode labels stuck on a sheet of plastic. It can be read
with a handheld barcode scanner to display text fragments dealing with
alpine landscape and animal biographies.
The current exhibition “Wood Stage” at the Galerie
Millennium features a series of large format drawings made with
graphite on paper, 183x230 cm. The drawings are for example of a
plastic tarpaulin strung up between a set of trees, of a still burning
fire, etc. They seemingly bring to light a series of objects and
situations recently left behind by an unknown group of inhabitants of
the edge of a forest.
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