Jon Pylypchuk "In The War"
Petzel Gallery
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"In The War," Jon Pylypchuk mounts teams of large-scale illuminated sculptures on opposite walls. These dissident objects hover sizing each other up in a perpetual standoff. The sculptures have an appearance of tribal masks, much like a display from the Metropolitan's Oceanic Department; but rather made with an arsenal of home improvement materials: resin, expanding foam, spun steel and aluminum spray-painted. With this Pylypchuk creates his own unique universe of Arte Povera gone emo-pop, with winks to Disney and late Goya.
Jon Pylypchuk has long made a world of anthropomorphized animals stuffed and suffering a multitude of mishapes. In the past, He has explored social themes such as violence, illness, poverty, and loss. The War continues in this vein, with a muted theatricality: each object interiorly lit, seemingly caught in night-vision sight. Pylypchuk poses war as what may be the ultimate masculine action clouded as cartoon melancholia.
Pylypchuk was born in Winnigpeg, Canada in 1972 and lives and works in Los Angeles. He was a founding member of the collaborative Royal Art Lodge while at the University of Manitoba and received his MFA from UCLA in 2001.
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Schedule
from December 11, 2009 to January 30, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-12-10 from 18:00 to 20:00