Johannes VanDerBeek "Another Time Man"
Zach Feuer Gallery
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Zach Feuer Gallery presents Another Time Man, the gallery’s second exhibition of work by Johannes VanDerBeek.
This exhibition is vaguely divided into three sections that form a sequence. These sections use light and materials in varying ways to reflect upon larger themes such as transformation, the passage of time, dreams, being broke but resilient, and searching for stories within holey pockets of thought. As viewers move through this body of work, they should consider how an exhibition could be interpreted in a dream and how different elements become stand-ins for a larger meaning in both comical and puzzling ways. They should also set their imagination upon wide expanses of time and the ways in which light, color, and materiality can become increasingly condensed and distorted as they move through the prisms of life, afterlife, and history.
The viewer enters into the living space where there are domestic objects with blank portraits that imply someone was just there. These tiny placeholders also come to represent the open door at the center of everything. The things in this room are made mostly of wood, a material that is still alive. Natural light filters through windows and there are shadows that allude to a fleeting quality of form. Slatted walls diffuse the natural light and hold up memories but also conceal the beaming
light from the big can on the other side - before it has been kicked.
Johannes VanDerBeek graduated from Cooper Union in 2004.
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Schedule
from May 08, 2010 to June 12, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-05-08 from 18:00 to 20:00