"Ressonância, Resonance, Resonanz" Exhibition
Sean Kelly Gallery
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The exhibition brings together works in diverse media by three artists - Iran do Espírito Santo, Callum Innes and Wolfgang Laib - which, whilst seemingly very different, share many conceptual, intellectual, formal and emotional resonances.
The carefully selected works included in the exhibition juxtapose varied conceptual interests that reveal the shared sensibility of the three artists. Iran do Espírito Santo's sculptures re-present ordinary items, such as cans, boxes, mirrors and various commonly-used everyday objects, rendered in alternate materials. In executing the works with extreme care and precision, Espírito Santo consistently achieves perfection in the rendering of his sculptures. Restless 20, a sculpture consisting of a single sheet of glass with various surface treatments of transparent, sandblasted and mirrored glass, disorients the perception of the viewer, creating an illusion of stacked materials lent against the wall. Callum Innes's highly disciplined technique involves applying paint to the canvas, and utilizing turpentine to remove some of the paint before it completely dries. Innes applies and removes the paint over and over, his process being time-dependent. There is a crucial point at which the artist surrenders control of the process, when the surface starts to deconstruct as turpentine 'unpaints' the canvas, rendering veils and streams of liberated pigment. Wolfgang Laib's installation, The Rice Meals, over fifty-three feet long, is comprised of thirty-two brass plates with mounds of rice, and one brass plate with hazelnut pollen. Installed in a straight line, the sculpture bisects the gallery and acts as the metaphorical spine for the exhibition. Laib utilizes materials from nature such as beeswax, pollen and marble in his sculptures. Each is treated with great care over extended periods of time, whether preparing a milk stone or painstakingly collecting pollen by hand. The exhibition presents a selected group of each artist's work in relationship and resonance to the other artists' pieces. The proximity of the works creates an opportunity for reexamining and reinterpreting each artist's oeuvre.
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Schedule
from December 13, 2008 to January 31, 2009