Rivane Neuenschwander
Stephen Friedman Gallery | 25 - 28 Old Burlington Street
The calendar was a priestly invention, a way of coordinating human and natural cycles, but in modern cultures it's mainly a tool for keeping track of the workaday routine. For Rivane Neuenschwander, however, it becomes something else again: a poetic artifice, an unexpected, offbeat accent to the daily round. To make Found Calendar (all works 2002), the Brazilian artist, who attended London's Royal College of Art, simply collected bits of paper (tickets, ads, bits of packagingjust about anything but an actual calendar page), each bearing a printed or handwritten number from one to thirty-one.