Shingo Francis "Bound For Eternity"
The Bogart Salon
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The Bogart Salon presents the first solo exhibition in New York for the artist Shingo Francis.
His work is a strange and beautiful melding of painting practices that blends together elements both of Eastern and Western art traditions into one harmonious structure. In his paintings we see the combination of the reductive aesthetics of Japanese scroll painting with the early Modernist struggle to engage the concept of the "sublime" as a philosophical goal. Francis is alert to these two divergent, but not incommensurate goals, trying to find a new space that can accommodate both the simplicity of a Shoji screen painting with the reductive visual power of early Malevitch. Mirroring his own dual heritages as the child of American and Japanese parents, Francis seeks a "third way" between these two cultures, and the title of the exhibition helps inform us of his journey to find this place between simplicity and power, boldness and quietude, visual beauty and a calm, but purposeful drive to reengage the lost ideals of the early twentieth century Modernists belief in the power of art to open a window to another world.
The centerpiece of this exhibition is the nearly 60 foot painting on paper Entitled Bound for Eternity (magentablue) 2009. This work which is part of a body of work began by Francis in 2007 will completely wrap the gallery, and allow visitors to be enveloped inside the object itself.
Curated with Aimee Chan Lindquist.
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Schedule
from June 15, 2012 to July 23, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-06-15 from 18:00 to 21:00