Steven Baldi and Lucas Knipscher Exhibition
Andrew Kreps Gallery
This event has ended.
The show is a continuation of a project initiated by Piper Marshall of the Swiss Institute at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. The current manifestation of the exhibition considers the capacity for images to synchronously reveal and obstruct meaning by ways of construction and reconfiguration. The works in the show reflect the shifts of geography and time, and include sculpture, film, photography and painting.
Steven Baldi’s work attempts to examine the multifaceted nature of visual language by taking on overburdened material forms of representation such as painting, 16mm film and photography, thus re-establishing meaning through process method and proximity. Baldi utilizes cascading sign systems inherent in the photographic medium to evaluate how the making and experience of objects relate to their exhibition and subsequent cataloging. Taking into consideration how the past, present and future documentation play a role in the making, recording and distributing of exhibitions, Baldi uses the historical, be it the immediate historical of his own exhibition history or working methods established by figures of Modernity, to reorient ones relationship to meaning and re-cognition.
Counter to Baldi’s practice, Lucas Knipscher immerses himself through identity and medium specificity into the layers of image making. As if with a microscopic lens, Knipscher balances the material aspects of the photographic genre employing various printing techniques used throughout the history of pictures. New forms of picture making such as photocopies, digital printing and mass media posters are combined with traditional processes such as Silver Gelatin and Platinum printing, and are handled both sculpturally and conventionally to complicate the manner in which we engage with images. Knipscher uses the photographic industry as a subject and an object, pointing towards the constantly shifting stages of meaning determined by material and display.
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Schedule
from July 01, 2010 to August 07, 2010