Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce "Blue Pigs" by artists Katerina Kana & Marina Olympios. This is the first project in New York of Kana & Olympios and the work exhibited at Lehmann Maupin will include a performance, installation work, video projections and photography.
The exhibition at Lehmann Maupin is part of a larger project entitled "Blue Pigs" which Kana & Olympios have been working on over an extended period of time. The Blue Pigs is a group of shifting situations; a hyper-adventure that recreates and revives itself. Each fragment of the situation resides in time from Day 1 to Day 7. Kana & Olympios have assembled a cast of characters to participate in these stories: "the blue pigs," "the nurses," "the twin sisters" and "the bubbleheads." The seven days of the Blue Pigs project present seven absurd escapades; each explores a complex emotional state of mind and works toward investigating an
alternative inter-human activity.
On the opening night at Lehmann Maupin, Kana & Olympios will stage a volleyball game between the nurses involving music and dance. This game will represent the fifth fragment of the blue pigs work: "Day Five." The exhibition at the gallery will include projections of videos of Day 5 and Day 3; photographs that document Day 1 through Day 5; a slide projection of Day 4; and other installation work on view.
Katerina Kana & Marina Olympios are Greek artists living in Paris and have been collaborating as artists for five years. They studied music and art in London and Paris. They have been working in New York during 1997 as part of the International Studio Program (sponsored by the AFFA France). This exhibition at Lehmann Maupin follows the artists' show at CAPC Bordeaux and the Musee Geo-Charles in Echirolles, France. In the spring of 1998, Kana and Olympios will be presenting the totality of the Blue Pigs (including the final stories of the project "Day 6" and "Day 7") at P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center/The Clocktower Gallery, NYC and will have a performance at the Kitchen on the 24th April 1998.