Kirsten Hassenfeld "Dans la Lune"
Smack Mellon
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Smack Mellon presents the first solo exhibitions for 2009. The exhibitions feature the work of Kirsten Hassenfeld.
"Since 1999, I have used paper to create ornate, obsessively detailed objects and environments that reference luxury goods, classical architecture, mineral formations and the decorative arts. In my works, eccentrically scaled and meticulously crafted elements combine to create a realm of decorative excess.
Dans La Lune was commissioned by Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, Texas and was exhibited in 2007. This installation takes my system of construction to an extreme: structures four to eight feet in diameter, resembling gigantic droplets or the onion domes of Russian architecture, are embellished with a profusion of swags, chains, honeycomb "beads," and gem–like crystals. The many fragile, detailed components of Dans La Lune will now hang in Smack Mellon’s dramatic, industrial gallery space.
The exhibition’s title comes from the French equivalent to the idiom “head in the clouds”, reflecting my interest in the nearly-universal human longing for a grander, more perfect existence, and the daydream as a reflexive coping strategy."
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Schedule
from January 17, 2009 to February 22, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-01-17 from 17:00 to 20:00