In Conversation: Ioana Nemes and Andrea Codrington Lippke
by artproductionnotes
Ioana Nemes and Andrea Codrington Lippke in conversation at Art In General (mp3)
In conjunction with her residency and exhibition, Times Colliding, Ioana Nemes discussed ideas and themes of her long-term project, Monthly Evaluations (2001-2010), with design and visual culture writer Andrea Codrington Lippke. Based on a thorough daily analysis of the artist’s own activities split into different departments—intellectual, physical, emotional, financial and the luck/chance factor—via an evaluation grid, the Monthly Evaluations focused on how one’s efficiency might be measured, archived and communicated using words, numbers, mathematical symbols and colors.
Ioana Nemes (1979-2011) was one of the most acknowledged and exhibited Romanian artists of her generation. She studied photography with Iosif Kiraly at the University of Art Bucharest. She was also known as a former professional handball player, who turned artist at the age of 21 after a serious knee accident. Nemes’ drive was fueled by the necessity to visualize and communicate as clearly as possible the hidden mechanism behind linguistic, visual, and psychological systems. Nemes participated in Istanbul Biennial, (2009), UTurn Copenhagen (2008), Prague Biennial (2007) and Bucharest Bienniale 2 (2006). Her works have been shown in Secession Vienna (2010), Smart Project Space Amsterdam (2009) and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2006). She was a resident at Art in General NY (2011), IASPIS Stockholm (2010) and Kulturkontakt Vienna (2004). She received the Future of Europe Art Prize from Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2007).
In addition to her work as a visual artist, Nemes’ diverse practice also included cross-disciplinary collaborative projects that allowed her to work cohesively across fashion, design, scenography and visual art; most notably her work with the fashion collective, Rozalb De Mura, and the interior design collaborative, Liste Noire.
Andrea Codrington Lippke is a Brooklyn-based editor and writer specializing in design and visual culture. With 20 years of experience in New York’s art, design and architecture worlds, Codrington has been a columnist for The New York Times, an editor at Phaidon Press, senior editor atI.D. Magazine and a lecturer and guest critic at the Guggenheim Museum, Yale University, Cranbrook Institute and Parsons School of Design, among others. She is the author ofKyle Cooper: Monographics and Greta Magnusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts, and has written extensively for such publications as The New York Times, Metropolis, Modern Painters and Cabinet. She is a founding faculty member of SVA’s renowned “D-Crit” Design Criticism MFA program, where she heads up the year-long thesis process. She is currently working on her first novel.
