Alexander Brodsky Exhibition
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
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Alexander Brodsky, a Moscow-based artist/architect, whose themes relate to memory and the passage of time, will exhibit three installations at the Ronald Feldman Gallery. Brodsky returns to New York after his recent collaboration on the production of Beckett Shorts at New York Theatre Workshop with JoAnne Akalaitis, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Philip Glass. As set designer, Brodsky fashioned an abstract environment which included a landscape of sand.
Incorporating modest materials and layered with metaphorical associations, the exhibition is an elegiac commentary on the impermanence of life and human endeavor. One installation consists of a line of clay heads that stare at television sets implanted in the back of the head that precedes it. The strange iconography of the heads, pocked and etched with age, alludes to a collective subconscious memory of unrecorded civilizations. Encased in a vitrine in the manner of archaeological museums, a second installation displays drawings on used tea bags aligned like a field of gravestones or a miniature Stonehenge. In the third installation, pieces of paper with hieroglyphic-like writing flap in the breeze created by a fan – the winds of time. A master of evocative lighting, Brodsky will also exhibit paintings, applied directly to the surface of light boxes.
- from METROPOLIS (May 2006)by Mark Lamster
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Schedule
from April 05, 2008 to May 10, 2008