Djordje Ozbolt Exhibition
Nyehaus
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Nyehaus presents new works by Djordje Ozbolt. For the Yugoslavian born artist’s first solo show in New York City, Ozbolt uses very little to restrain the vast arsenal of techniques, genres, pop culture intelligence and turn of phrase. The result is a body of work that is packed with a sinister sense of humor and a virtuosity of hand.
In most cases, the title of an art work may add insight; but with Ozbolt the titles of the pieces are works in of themselves. David Shrigley (not to mention Richard Prince) for instance, has built a body of work using just the words of these visual puns. The viewer is asked the age old cliché “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
In the psychedelic “Wandering Eyes,” a crowd of colorful eyeballs bounce lecherously amongst each other. “Broken History” depicts an ancient artifact lying in a landscape of history while barely discernable in the background is a pedestaled figure holding an impossible clock. “Tears of Wisdom” reveals the face of a man in profile with all the requisite, terminal head and facial hair with only a single melodramatic tear meandering down his cheek. And finally a piece consisting of 30 panels becomes a veritable library of his gestural to old master styles and illustrates the deep annals of imagery he has access to in his highly whimsical and dazzling works. The play between the pun itself and the technical means in which the pun is realized is at the core of Ozbolt’s work.
In the end this stylistic / pictorial menagerie yields the artist as alchemist, rendering his highly personal vision carved out of this long tradition of painting. Nyehaus is an exhibition space founded by devoted contemporary art collector and curator Tim Nye. In addition, Nyehaus commissions new works in order to expand and enliven the dialogue within an artist's oeuvre.
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Schedule
from March 13, 2008 to April 26, 2008