Rachel Harrison. Fake Titel: Turquoise-Stained Altars for Burger Turner

The New York artist Rachel Harrison (1966) is considered one of the most influential sculptors of her generation. Since the 1990s she has developed a sculptural idiom in which she incorporates found objects into colourful, playful, abstract forms. In this way she updates Marcel Duchamp’s classic notion of the ready-made in the context of the contemporary consumer society. Harrison’s blend of art history references and pop culture takes the form of both grotesque spatial structures and powerful two-dimensional assemblages. The S.M.A.K. is presenting sculptures and drawings from a recent series entitled ‘The Help’ (2012), the large-scale installation ‘Incidents of Travel in Yucatan’ (2011) and her photographic ‘Sunset Series’ (2000-2012).

The exhibition is being co-produced by the kestnergesellschaft (Hanover). Rachel Harrison has taken the exhibition that was on there this summer as the 'ready-made basis' for her presentation at the S.M.A.K.: it is additionally infiltrated through several works by Marcel Duchamp as well as works from the S.M.A.K. collection, which enter into a dialogue with Harrison's world.

With the support of Greene Naftali, New York.

Rachel Harrison
Fake Titel: Turquoise-Stained Altars for Burger Turner