Brock Enright "Satellite Son"
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery announces an exhibition of new sculpture by Brock Enright. For "Satellite Son," Enright presents a series of assemblages culled from the obsessive mining of his art and personal history. These collections, presented throughout the gallery on low pedestals, contain elements and ephemera amassed from his performances, props and locales.
Alluding to curio collections of the early 16th and 17th century scientists, Enright anachronistically juxtaposes seemingly unrelated objects and phenomena in order to institute interconnectedness. Rather than defying aesthetic orders and values as in work past, this new series reveals the artists’ control on both his world and his practice through the undefined categorical boundaries he establishes in each piece. In a way that combines the formal austerity of constructivism with the theatrics of the sublime, Enright’s tessellations create a platform to merge documentation and fantasy.
The sculptural facets within each plinth of "Satellite Son" are considered to be in a transitory state representing a trajectory of past, present and future. Enright concedes his work to be in a constant state of flux, and by placing an object on view he essentially pauses or freezes the works. While in still placement, yet maintaining their kinetic integrity, the individual and collective components create an active site into which the viewer is invited. Acting as catalysts, these objects collide psychological traumas with contemporary myths.
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Schedule
from October 25, 2009 to December 06, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-25 from 18:00 to 20:00
Performance at 7pm