Adriana Lara at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

Installation View: Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club", Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016  Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski     

Installation View:
Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club", Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016 
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

 

 

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory/ #35, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique  Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski  

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #35, 2016
crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique 
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

 

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory/ #17, 2014 wool hand woven Berber carpets 210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique  Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #17, 2014
wool hand woven Berber carpets
210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique 
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Installation View: Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club," Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016 Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski   

Installation View:
Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club," Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016 Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

 

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory /#10, 2012 screen printing on lacquer on wood 55 x 80 x 6 cm | 21 2/3 x 31 1/2 x 2 1/3 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #10, 2012
screen printing on lacquer on wood
55 x 80 x 6 cm | 21 2/3 x 31 1/2 x 2 1/3 in unique
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theories/ #21-#25, 2016 silk screen on porcelain dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP) Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theories /#21-#25, 2016 silk screen on porcelain dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP) Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory/ #17, 2014 wool hand woven Berber carpets 210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #17, 2014
wool hand woven Berber carpets
210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theories/ #21-#25, 2016 silk screen on porcelain dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP) Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory/ #33, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #33, 2016
crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory /#30, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler,  Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #30, 2016
crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 
Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara  /Interesting Theory/ #26, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in  unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

Adriana Lara 
Interesting Theory #26, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in 
unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theory /#19, 2016 formica on wood 130 x 160 cm | 51 1/4 x 63 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #19, 2016 formica on wood
130 x 160 cm | 51 1/4 x 63 in unique
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theories /#21-#25, 2016 silk screen on porcelain dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP) Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /Interesting Theories/ #21-#25, 2016 silk screen on porcelain dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP) Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin  Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara /The Club of I.T.s Poster,/ 2016 offset print poster 80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 2/3 in Ed. of 50 Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski  

Adriana Lara
The Club of I.T.s Poster, 2016
offset print poster
80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 2/3 in
Ed. of 50
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

 

Installation View:
Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club", Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016 
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

 

 

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #35, 2016
crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique 
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

 

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #17, 2014
wool hand woven Berber carpets
210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique 
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Installation View:
Adriana Lara, "The Interesting Theory Club," Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2016 Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

 

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #10, 2012
screen printing on lacquer on wood
55 x 80 x 6 cm | 21 2/3 x 31 1/2 x 2 1/3 in unique
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #17, 2014
wool hand woven Berber carpets
210 x 135 cm | 82 2/3 x 53 1/4 in unique
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #33, 2016
crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #30, 2016
crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 
Berlin Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara 
Interesting Theory #26, 2016 crayon on paper, inkjet print on acetate sheet, acrylic glass 29 x 21.7 cm | 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in 
unique Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski 

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theory #19, 2016 formica on wood
130 x 160 cm | 51 1/4 x 63 in unique
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
Interesting Theories #21-#25, 2016
silk screen on porcelain
dimensions variable | dimensions variable edition 1/3 (+1AP)
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

Adriana Lara
The Club of I.T.s Poster, 2016
offset print poster
80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 2/3 in
Ed. of 50
Courtesy the Artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

 

Adriana Lara, „The Interesting Theory Club" 
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 27.2—9.4.2016 

by Karen Archey

“The Interesting Theory Club” is a little inscrutable, but that seems to be Adriana Lara’s currency. This is after all the Mexican artist who gave us, for the Younger Than Jesus Triennial in 2009, the fresh peel of a daily banana eaten by a security guard, in a most weird Looney Toons-meets-Fred-Wilson institutional critique mash-up. 
Lara’s exhibition continues the artist’s propensity to enigmatically overlap symbols and shapes that represent “interesting theories” – be they artistic, economic, philosophical, whatever. The works included in the exhibition span from Moroccan rugs to pages torn out of children’s coloring books; furniture to raffia wall hangings. All of these objects somehow incorporate the image of several polygons overtaking each other with a darker shape in the middle. This symbol appears almost cartographic or diagrammatic, and fills the viewer with a longing to figure out just what the hell it means. The seriality of Lara’s formal permutations recalls the systematized arrangements of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, and its cheeky omnipresence brings to mind André Cadere’s Round Wooden Bars, which the artist plopped into other people’s exhibitions. Respite from this inscrutability comes not in the form of answers, but from the realization that the production and display of art is itself a system, a tactical game. 

 

 

This text appears in Spike Art Quarterly N° 47 and is available for purchase at our online shop.

Adriana Lara
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
Karen Archey
Sol LeWitt
The Interesting Theory Club
Younger Than Jesus Triennial
Institutional Critique
André Cadere

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