"no greater solitude" Exhibition
Thierry Goldberg
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Jonathan Hartshorn’s installations consist of small grotesque drawings and gory collages of paint. Hung in what appears to be a random dissonance, is Hartshorn’s careful reinterpretation of personal memories and fiction. His improvised hanging of individual pieces represents the desultory nature of retelling and remembering trauma. In what he likens to the “currency of memory,” a multitude of tellings generates a multitude of truths and Hartshorn’s performative relationship with his installation process is a mutable extension of those very stories.
Joyce Kim reflects on the entropy of utopian ideals as she reframes Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film, Le Samouraï. The title of the exhibition is a quote from Melville’s fictitious “Bushido,” The Book of the Samouraï. Recalling select scenes from the film, Kim develops her own voice and memories in relation to the Modernist history of painting. Obscuring and defacing surface in storms of gray with collaged pieces of paint and blackened acrylic foil, she alludes to a decaying and shattered ‘60s notion of modernism as a symbolic stage. The paintings convey the sublimely silent and desolate spaces in the film while nodding to the history and promise of abstraction.
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Schedule
from May 09, 2008 to June 08, 2008
Opening Reception: May 9, 6-8 pm.