Photo Courtesy of Rirkrit Tiravanija Studio
UNCLEBROTHER IN NYC
September 30th - October 31st, 2021
THE GALLERY is delighted to present an event, UNCLEBROTHER IN NYC with Rirkrit Tiravanija and friends. UNCLEBROTHER is a gallery space and community kitchen co-founded by Gavin Brown and Rirkrit Tiravanija in upstate New York. Located in an old car dealership, the space hosts exhibitions and weekend communal dinners every summer.
This fall THE GALLERY is bringing their philosophy of art and passions for culinary in NYC.
Portrait Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Since the 1990s, Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) has aligned his artistic production with an ethic of social engagement, often inviting viewers to inhabit and activate his work.
Culinary
Beef Massman Curry by Rirkrit Tiravanija
Original Thai Recipe by Tiravanija’s grandmother translated into English for this event
Lobster Cream Curry by Hiroki Odo
Main lobster, Manila clam, Mushroom medley
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu
2021, Edition 100
Collaborating with The OR Foundation
Secondhand T-shirts hand silk screened at Le Roy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University
We're exhibiting one-of-a-kind silk screened T-shirts created by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu. Collaborating with The OR Foundation, they salvaged 100 second hand T-shirts collected all around the U.S. Each T-shirt is silk screened at Le Roy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University. Artists used the T-shirts inside out and printed their slogans and images. Combinations of messages are visible inside and out, including original phrases such as "I LOVE NY"," NO JUSTICE NO PEACE", "HEALTH CARE HEROES".
Artists' own words and images include such as: DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY, FEAR EATS THE SOUL, ALL YOU NEED DYNAMITE, LESS OIL MORE COURAGE, THERE IS NO SUN WITHOUT A SONG, MARCH ON UNTIL IT RAINS GLASS, THE TYRANNY OF COMMON SENSE HAS REACHED ITS FINAL STAGE, TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY, Ana Mendeila, Che Guevara, David Bowie, Frida Kalho, Gandhi, Joseph Beuys, Martin Luther King Jr., and Pussy Riot.
About The OR Foundation
The OR Foundation is a 501(C)(3) public charity in the USA and a registered charity in Ghana that has been operating in both countries since 2009. Working at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development.
The capital of Ghana, Accra is home to one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world. 15 million items pass through the market called Kantamanto every week, clothing collected in the name of charity, but sold into Ghana in the name of big business. However, 40% of the clothing that enters Kantamanto Market leaves the Market directly as waste. That’s roughly 6 million items of clothing every week dumped within an ecosystem that cannot support the cleanup, representing Accra’s largest source of consolidated waste. The U.S. is one of the top countries to export its secondhand clothing to Ghana, making it one of the biggest contributors to its waste.
For this event, we are trying to do our part to help our part to avoid more clothing being sent to Ghana to end up becoming garbage.Percent of our sales will go to help funding The OR Foundation.
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Travis Fairclough
UNCLEBROTHER cup
2021, Edition 50
2.75 x 2.75 inches (7 x 7 cm)
Made at ceramic studio in Hancock, Upstate NY
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu
PHO VS KAO SOI
2019, Mix Media,
135 x 108 x 30 inches (343 x 274 x 76 cm)
On the opening night on September 30th, Tiravanija and the owner of THE GALLERY as known as a Michelin-Starred chef, Hiroki Odo cooked together to create special menus on a connected ping pong table sculpture which was exhibited at Venice event in 2019.
Special Thanks to
Hamid Amini / Gavin Brown / Travis Fairclough / Maris Hanson / Masako Kaufman / Etsuko Kobayashi / Kanako Maeda / Sara Malas / Aik Wye Ng / Kate Pressman / Liz Ricketts / Danielle Cardoso Shaeffer / Junko Shimada / Hilary Taymour / Tomas Vu / Columbia University Le Roy Neiman Center for Print Studies / Gladstone Gallery / Golden Bridge Cleaners / Next Cleaners / The OR foundation
The Gallery Crew
Manabu Asanuma / Ricard Diaz / Victor Diaz / Shuji Furukawa / Karma Gurung / Akiko Ichikawa / Fabian Morales / Federico Perez Mosso / Hiroki Odo / Yoko Odo / Brian Saito / Victor Sandoval / Jordan Smith / Mari Yoh
Event organized by Akiko Ichikawa