Location: United States
Artist biography
Lise Soskolne is an established, mid-career contemporary artist, who was born in Canada, like other well-known artists such as Erod, Hilary Pecis, Jim Carrey, Anton Jeludkov, and Kapwani Kiwanga. Lise Soskolne was born in 1971.
Further Biographical Context for Lise Soskolne
Lise Soskolne was born in 1971 and was primarily influenced by the 1980s growing up. The generation of artists that grew up in, and took inspiration from, the 1980s was influenced by a period of rapidly growing global capitalism, political upheaval, notable wealth differences, global mass media and distinctive music and fashion, including electronic pop music and hip hop. The 1980s was the era of African famine, the height of the Cold War, and also the end of it, as marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall. significant art movements of the era include Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation and the international trend of Neo-Expressionism which manifested in Germany, the USA and Italy (where it was known as Transavanguardia). The decade was exemplified by artists like Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorf, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel. Street art and graffiti started to gain prominence, key artists of which include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.
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Here is a provenance record written in 2020 for the exhibition Humour Then at the Kunstverein Nürnberg about Three Frames from Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, an oil painting made in 1998 and again in 2020:
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the title of a 1975 narrative film by Chantal Akerman. Using extended real-time takes, the film documents three days in a woman’s domestic and working life. Each day is bracketed by intertitles, as depicted in this painting made in 2020 as a facsimile of an earlier version, painted in 1998. The first Jeanne Dielman was shown at Artists Space (NY) in 1999 and then sold shortly thereafter. It was the first of two times an art collector has bought my work. I agreed to his terms, accepting as payment an equivalent sum of hotel credit redeemable on a hard to reach island in the Caribbean. I never made it there during the years that passed after the sale, but I never forgot about the deal and always wondered what happened to my painting. Then, in 2017 a request came from Artists Space to exhibit the work again. I found my copy of the faxed contract. It stated that the sale wouldn’t be complete until all of the hotel credit was redeemed. I still owned the painting. The problem was, the collector had lost track of Jeanne Dielman in 2012 and no longer knew where she was.
An extended and updated provenance record for Jeanne Dielman was recorded in 2021 as part of the exhibition Indistinct Chatter at LAYR Gallery in Vienna: https://soundcloud.com/user-381640487/vol-6-lise-soskolne?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
All provenance records from the exhibition Humour Then: https://kunstvereinnuernberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lise-Soskolne_Humour-Then_Texts_EN_final_upload.pdf
“Film Still: Three Frames from Jeanne Dielman”
Oil on canvas
60 x 96”
1998
“Three Frames from Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ”
Oil on canvas
60 x 96”
2020
“Artists Space, New York, NY. 1999”
“Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany. 2020”
