Painted Horse | Shannon Bool
2019
17.5 x 15.5 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Known for a practice that synthesizes modernist and art-historical narratives with precise material investigations, Shannon Bool’s unconventional layering of references and processes attempt to reconfigure preconceived perceptions, hierarchies, and points of view. While equine imagery recurs throughout her practice, Painted Horse utilizes a black and white photograph of a white horse as a surface for naive painting. Stemming from the history of horses being painted for war or equine science, to the recent controversial trend of pony-painting parties, Bool explores the multilayered subjectivity of painting on an unwitting ground in order to illuminate the complexity of the empathy that expression generates.
ABOUT SHANNON BOOL
Born in Comox, BC in 1972, Shannon Bool works and lives in Berlin. She was a Villa Romana Artist-in-Residence in 2013. In 2019, Bool was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Award. She is represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Promiscuous Rooms“, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2019); “Bomb. Shell.“, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2018); “The Shape of Obus”, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (2018); “Castle/Cathedral”, Peles Empire, Berlin (2017); “Entrata Reale”, Apotheke, Kunsthochschule Mainz (2017); “The Eastern Carpet in the Western World Revisited”, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary (2016); “Crooked Room”, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2015); “Lived Bodies”, Galerie Kadel Wellborn, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015); “Flight of the Medici Mamluk & Michelangelo’s Place”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015)
Selected group exhibitions: “Deutschland ist keine Insel. Sammlung zietgenoessischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankaeufe von 2012 bis 2016”, National Museum of Germany, Bonn (2018); “My Body Doesn’t Like Summer”, Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2018); “May you live in interesting times”, High Tide, Philadelphia (2018); “Der Komfort-Kuppel-Komplex”, Lothringer 13, Munich (2018); “NGC Canadian Biennial ”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2017); “Portikus XXX”, Dom St. Bartholomäus, Frankfurt (2017); “I AM A PROBLEM”, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2017); “Peles Empire”, Berlin (2017); “Dreamers Awake”, White Cube, London (2017); “Mentally Yellow (High Noon): The KiCo Collection”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (2017); “Nasty”, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2017);
Selected public collections: Banque nationale du Canada, Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Bundeskunstsammlung Bonn, Fondazione Sandretto, Kunstmuseum Bonn, MMK – Museum für Modern Kunst, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Canada, Saatchi Collection, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München
2019
17.5 x 15.5 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Known for a practice that synthesizes modernist and art-historical narratives with precise material investigations, Shannon Bool’s unconventional layering of references and processes attempt to reconfigure preconceived perceptions, hierarchies, and points of view. While equine imagery recurs throughout her practice, Painted Horse utilizes a black and white photograph of a white horse as a surface for naive painting. Stemming from the history of horses being painted for war or equine science, to the recent controversial trend of pony-painting parties, Bool explores the multilayered subjectivity of painting on an unwitting ground in order to illuminate the complexity of the empathy that expression generates.
ABOUT SHANNON BOOL
Born in Comox, BC in 1972, Shannon Bool works and lives in Berlin. She was a Villa Romana Artist-in-Residence in 2013. In 2019, Bool was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Award. She is represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Promiscuous Rooms“, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2019); “Bomb. Shell.“, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2018); “The Shape of Obus”, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (2018); “Castle/Cathedral”, Peles Empire, Berlin (2017); “Entrata Reale”, Apotheke, Kunsthochschule Mainz (2017); “The Eastern Carpet in the Western World Revisited”, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary (2016); “Crooked Room”, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2015); “Lived Bodies”, Galerie Kadel Wellborn, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015); “Flight of the Medici Mamluk & Michelangelo’s Place”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015)
Selected group exhibitions: “Deutschland ist keine Insel. Sammlung zietgenoessischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankaeufe von 2012 bis 2016”, National Museum of Germany, Bonn (2018); “My Body Doesn’t Like Summer”, Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2018); “May you live in interesting times”, High Tide, Philadelphia (2018); “Der Komfort-Kuppel-Komplex”, Lothringer 13, Munich (2018); “NGC Canadian Biennial ”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2017); “Portikus XXX”, Dom St. Bartholomäus, Frankfurt (2017); “I AM A PROBLEM”, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2017); “Peles Empire”, Berlin (2017); “Dreamers Awake”, White Cube, London (2017); “Mentally Yellow (High Noon): The KiCo Collection”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (2017); “Nasty”, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2017);
Selected public collections: Banque nationale du Canada, Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Bundeskunstsammlung Bonn, Fondazione Sandretto, Kunstmuseum Bonn, MMK – Museum für Modern Kunst, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Canada, Saatchi Collection, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München
2019
17.5 x 15.5 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Known for a practice that synthesizes modernist and art-historical narratives with precise material investigations, Shannon Bool’s unconventional layering of references and processes attempt to reconfigure preconceived perceptions, hierarchies, and points of view. While equine imagery recurs throughout her practice, Painted Horse utilizes a black and white photograph of a white horse as a surface for naive painting. Stemming from the history of horses being painted for war or equine science, to the recent controversial trend of pony-painting parties, Bool explores the multilayered subjectivity of painting on an unwitting ground in order to illuminate the complexity of the empathy that expression generates.
ABOUT SHANNON BOOL
Born in Comox, BC in 1972, Shannon Bool works and lives in Berlin. She was a Villa Romana Artist-in-Residence in 2013. In 2019, Bool was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Award. She is represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Promiscuous Rooms“, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2019); “Bomb. Shell.“, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2018); “The Shape of Obus”, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette (2018); “Castle/Cathedral”, Peles Empire, Berlin (2017); “Entrata Reale”, Apotheke, Kunsthochschule Mainz (2017); “The Eastern Carpet in the Western World Revisited”, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary (2016); “Crooked Room”, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2015); “Lived Bodies”, Galerie Kadel Wellborn, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015); “Flight of the Medici Mamluk & Michelangelo’s Place”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015)
Selected group exhibitions: “Deutschland ist keine Insel. Sammlung zietgenoessischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankaeufe von 2012 bis 2016”, National Museum of Germany, Bonn (2018); “My Body Doesn’t Like Summer”, Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2018); “May you live in interesting times”, High Tide, Philadelphia (2018); “Der Komfort-Kuppel-Komplex”, Lothringer 13, Munich (2018); “NGC Canadian Biennial ”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2017); “Portikus XXX”, Dom St. Bartholomäus, Frankfurt (2017); “I AM A PROBLEM”, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2017); “Peles Empire”, Berlin (2017); “Dreamers Awake”, White Cube, London (2017); “Mentally Yellow (High Noon): The KiCo Collection”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (2017); “Nasty”, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2017);
Selected public collections: Banque nationale du Canada, Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Bundeskunstsammlung Bonn, Fondazione Sandretto, Kunstmuseum Bonn, MMK – Museum für Modern Kunst, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Canada, Saatchi Collection, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München