"Imitating Nature in Her Manner of Operation" Exhibition

Margarete Roeder Gallery

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Margarete Roeder Gallery presents a two-person exhibition of works by John Cage and Tom Marioni entitled Imitating Nature in Her Manner of Operation.

The exhibition’s title is adapted from a quote (by Ananda Coomaraswamy, originally “Art is the imitation of nature in her manner of operation”) that Cage favored; the exhibition itself will
comprise new work by Marioni and a selected range of works in multiple media by Cage.

Marioni will create a new work especially for the exhibition entitled Freehand Circle on Prepared Wall. Executed directly on the wall in the greatest radius permitted by the artist’s reach, the
work is a continuation of a series of “performed” drawings that Marioni began in 1972 with Drawing a Line as Far as I Can Reach and continued with Flying with Friends and Drum Brush
Drawings. Two works from the latter series, made with steel wire drum brushes on sandpaper, will also be shown. A concatenation of concept, materials, performance, and image, these works succinctly demonstrate the breadth of Marioni’s practice.

Cage’s work exhibited here, beginning with his plexigrams Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, 1969, will include his Where R = Ryoanji drawings (inspired by the rock gardens of Kyoto but made by following chance operations produced by a computer program), River Rocks and Smoke watercolors, and a selection of unique works produced by methods as varied as dropping inked strings on to the sheet, or running burning paper through a press. Cage
combined traditional and modern media with chance operations and practices derived from algorithms natural and mathematical to produce works as varied as the world in which we live.

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Schedule

from March 25, 2009 to May 09, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-03-25 from 18:00 to 20:00

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