Landscapes surveys Simon Denny’s recent painting series. The artworks depict land plots in digital worlds. Map-like tiles representing ownership of parts of these worlds have been rendered by the conceptual artist in a combination of digital print and painterly gestures. Exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hannover (Germany) and the Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium) presented Denny’s experiments with the imagery and technologies that underpin this phenomenon. These artistic gestures unpack historical resonances between ter-ritory, abstraction, and financialization in a new kind of landscape painting.
Authors: Christina Barton, Adina Glickstein, Martin Herbert, Omar Kholeif, and Fred Turner.
Language: English
Publisher: Sorry Press, 2023
Softcover, 360 pages
15 in. x 9 in.
ISBN: 978-3-910265-16-5
About the artist
Simon Denny (b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand)
Denny lives and works in Berlin. He makes exhibitions and projects that unpack the stories technologists tell us about the world using a variety of media including installation, sculpture, print, painting, video and NFTs. He studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland and at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. He is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg. Other recent solo exhibitions include Gus Fisher Gallery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2021); Petzel Gallery (2021 and 2011); K21– Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2020); the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Tasmania (2019); MOCA, Cleveland (2018); OCAT, Shenzhen (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2016); Serpentine Galleries, London (2015); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014) MUMOK, Vienna (2013); Kunstverein Munich (2013). Denny has also curated significant exhibitions about blockchain and art such as Proof of Stake at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2021) and Proof of Work at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018). He represented New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. His works are held in many private and institutional collections globally, including Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, (Düsseldorf), MoMA (New York), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich), Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Berlin) and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington). He co-founded the artist mentoring program BPA//Berlin Program for Artists and serves as a Professor of Time-Based Media at the HFBK (University of Fine Arts) Hamburg.
