Thomas Kovachevich “2013”
Show Room Gowanus
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SHOW ROOM | Gowanus presents 2013, the gallery’s second exhibition with Thomas Kovachevich, presented in collaboration with Callicoon Fine Arts. Taking place in three venues, the show puts on display a large body of Kovachevich’s work from the past year. The exhibitions feature immense corrugated columns, abstract paintings, and environment-based/ambient sculpture.
Duration has been the basis of Kovachevich’s work since he began his practice as an artist in the late 1960s with installation and performance. As a framework for the artist’s daily practice, this receptivity to spans of time also contains the subtle changes that occur to his works, marked by barely perceptible movement or seemingly unexplained phenomena—such as fibrous paper twirling under the effects of humidity in the room. The sensibility behind such change extends to Kovachevich’s use of painting, drawing, and forms of sculptural assembly that result in large, volumetric forms. In one group of works, corrugated plastic is cut to form wedge-shaped constructions, columns, and giant wheels. In another, dozens of foot-square paintings offer insight into his diligent practice of painting on black grounds.
Thomas Kovachevich was born in Detroit, MI, and lives and works in New York. He has had one-person exhibitions at several museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Albert and Vera List Center at MIT; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Significant group exhibitions include Documenta 5; exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Detroit Institute of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Roberta Smith in the New York Times called Kovachevich’s 2012 exhibition at SHOW ROOM, Alpenglow, “so visually entrancing as to be beautiful.”In May, Kovachevich will have an exhibition at Galerie de France, Paris.
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Schedule
from February 28, 2014 to March 30, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-02-28 from 19:00 to 22:00