Adam McEwen ‘Tinnitus’

Installation view 'Tinnitus', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
Adam McEwen
The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow
04/06/2016—10/09/2016
  • Lincoln Tunnel (Pipe), 2016, Inkjet print on cellulose sponge, iron pipe, 157.5 x 274.3 x 10.16 cm
  • Installation view 'Tinnitus', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Installation view 'Tinnitus', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Untitled, 2016, Cast iron, 46 x 41 x 20 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 AP
  • Untitled, 2016, Cast iron, 46 x 41 x 20 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 AP
  • Untitled (detail), 2016, Cast iron, 46 x 41 x 20 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 AP
  • Installation view 'Tinnitus', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Installation view 'Tinnitus', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Midtown/Lincoln, 2016, Inkjet print on cellulose sponge, 157.48 x 274.32 cm
  • Holland Tunnel (Pipe), 2016, Inkjet print on cellulose sponge, iron pipe, 157.5 x 274.3 x 7.6 cm
  • Installation view 'Tinnitus', The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Down Elevator, 2016, Graphite, 24.77 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable, Installation view ‘Tinnitus’, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable, Installation view ‘Tinnitus’, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable, Installation view ‘Tinnitus’, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable, Installation view ‘Tinnitus’, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016
  • Tinnitus, 2016, Half-inch steel band, hardware, Dimensions variable, Installation view ‘Tinnitus’, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2016

Taking its title from the central work in this exhibition, ‘Tinnitus’ is comprised of a steel banding sculpture splicing across the gallery space, several large-scale photographic images printed on sponge and punctuated by rough iron piping, and a car airbag cast in iron.

Pulled together by a continuity of materials and the intention to define a constant, invisible force — a sound in a sculptural form — the exhibition expands on themes central to McEwen’s practice, revealing a disquieting resistance within the very familiar.

Adam McEwen (b. 1965, London, lives and works in New York) studied BFA at California Institute of the Arts (1991).

Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Harvest’, Petzel Gallery, New York (2016); Museo Civico Diocesano di Santa Maria dei Servi, Città della Pieve (2015); ‘Non-Alignment Pact’, Art Concept, Paris (2014); ‘Factory Tint’, Capitain-Petzel, Berlin (2014); ‘Sawney Bean’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2013); The Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas (2012); ’11.11.11’, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (2011); ‘A Real Slow Drag’, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2011).
McEwen has also participated in numerous group shows, including those at: PS1, New York; Fondation Vuitton, Paris; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; White Flag Projects, Saint Louis; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The New Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Hayward Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; and CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco.