Gonzalo Puch "A Temporary Garden"
Julie Saul Gallery
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The Julie Saul Gallery presents A Temporary Garden, an exhibition of new work by the Spanish artist Gonzalo Puch. This is our second solo show with Puch, the first having been held in March 2005. Puch has been living in New York since the fall of 2010 maintaining an artists’ residency at Location One where around half of the work in the show was made. Puch is currently at work on an installation created in situ in the residency's exhibition space, which the public is invited to visit as it evolves.
Puch's signature technique involves juxtaposing disparate elements into constructed assemblages and staged situations which he then captures photographically. The resulting photographic images are as poetic as they are mysterious, as suggestive as they are haunting, and are frequently imbued with an elusive, off-beat sense of humor.
As the title of the exhibition A Temporary Garden suggests, Puch's new work draws on the world of plants for its operative leit-motif. Leafy plants combine with busy line-drawings and assembled objects in one photograph; a bell pepper is carved into an ephemeral sculpture in another; and in yet another a twig and bits of colored thread are precariously organized into an image that brings to mind the traditional Chinese landscape drawing. In A Temporary Garden the line between the natural world and the world of artistic creation is not so much blurred as bridged -- as it is in fact in any garden.
In addition to the photographs, A Temporary Garden also includes a 5-minute video by Puch entitled The Next Cyclone in the Paradise Office. As in his photographic work, in the new video Puch utilizes a collage-like technique to create uncanny, dream-like sequences of images that suggest but do not specify a narrative thread.
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Schedule
from May 26, 2011 to July 07, 2011