Walead Beshty “Performances Under Working Conditions”
Petzel Gallery
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Petzel Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Walead Beshty. This will be the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the Los Angeles based artist.
In his new exhibition, Walead Beshty continues to explore the ways in which objects accrue and produce meaning through their placement and circulation in the world. Using the preexisting design of the gallery tables and desktops as a readymade, Beshty created polished raw copper sculptures built to the dimensions of the gallery’s working surfaces. The “Copper Surrogates” were then installed replacing the gallery’s desks and left in place for his curated summer exhibition A Machinery for Living. As the gallery staff resumed their normal everyday work activities, their movements tarnished a patina on to the highly reflective copper surfaces. Much like film capturing a moment in time, the copper surrogates map the progression of the gallery staff’s immaterial labor: of discourse, transaction and negotiation. In September, the copper surrogates will be installed in the gallery, dislocating them from their original function.
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Schedule
from September 04, 2014 to October 04, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-04 from 18:00 to 20:00