"Shaping Space" Exhibition
James Cohan Gallery
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James Cohan Gallery announces the opening of a new group exhibition, Shaping Space. This selection of works examines how artists literally and conceptually shape the object and its environment. With nineteen-sixties Minimalism having established an active engagement between the spectator and object, the works in the exhibition continue this dialogue by including the viewers' physical participation or perceptual awareness as a crucial component in each artwork.
Artists' approaches vary; from the subtle as found in Alan Saret's ethereal wire clusters or Fred Sandback's floor-to-ceiling extension of acrylic yarn, which delineates the gallery's corner as the sculptural object; to the large-scale, as in Spencer Finch's installation in the front gallery that re-creates the quality of light of a candle-lit interior and Ricci Albenda's video portal into an imagined architectural space. The works in the exhibition are executed in a variety of materials that include stone, stainless steel, wire, natural light, and video.
[Image: Shaping Space installation works by Richard Long, Roxy Paine and Alan Saret]
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Schedule
from January 16, 2009 to February 14, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-01-16 from 18:00 to 20:00