David Altmejd Exhibition
Andrea Rosen Gallery (525 W 24th St)
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David Altmejd presents two new bodies of work in his third solo exhibition with the gallery. Two large Plexiglas sculptures of an unprecedented scale for the artist share the space with a more ethereal group of works. These Plexiglas structures contain entire landscapes that are immensely and painstakingly detailed. For the first time, Altmejd will intervene into the architecture of the space with large scale sculptures scraped out of and embedded within the walls of the gallery.
Small scale interventions into the walls and the large plaster sculptures embedded within the gallery extend the scope of the exhibition to fill the entire space. Standing figures, also in plaster, are arrayed through the gallery and seem to have emerged from the walls and create a progression from the entrance, through the main gallery, and into Gallery 3, which features the embedded work "Architect 2", 2011 that spans three of the gallery’s walls. Rather than creating terminal artworks, complete and ossified, Altmejd’s works are manifestations of objects that are always transforming and forever open. Rather than crafting puzzles for viewers to solve, Altmejd generates structures and landscapes to inhabit.
[Image: David Altmejd "The Vessel" (2011) Plexiglas, chain, plaster, wood, thread, wire, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, epoxy clay, acrylic gel, granular medium, quartz, pyrite, assorted minerals, adhesive, wire, pins, needles 102 1/2 x 244 x 86 1/2 in.]
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Schedule
from March 18, 2011 to April 23, 2011