Louise Despont “Harmonic Tremor”

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery presents Harmonic Tremor, an exhibition of new drawings by Louise Despont. This will be Despont’s fourth exhibition at the gallery.

The works in this exhibition take their inspiration from the simple, Balinese daily profusion of offerings, known as Canang Sari and the religious and cultural significance of volcanoes in Indonesian life. Taking its name from the term used to describe the acoustic signals that preclude volcanic erruptions, Harmonic Tremor charts and examines the spiritual and energetic spaces latent within Balinese traditions and practices.

The topographical depictions of volcanoes in The Sound Heard Around the World and Anak Krakatau (or Child of Krakatau) merge and codify Despont’s compositional rigor with her long-standing interest in the resonance and reverberation of sound waves. Considering the explosion of Krakatoa in 1883, and the vibration of which circled the globe 4 times, Despont expresses these energies and transmissions into her drawings, recasting them as not only narrative and pictoral constructions, but as aural and audible translations.

Individually and as a body of work, Despont’s drawings denote a balance between sacred and profane, good and evil, chaos and order, creation and destruction. Despont considers the daily ritual of Balinese offerings to be synonomous with her own practice of connecting and reinforcing the physical and spiritual planes.

Louise Despont received her BA in Art Semiotics at Brown University in 2006. Her work has been presented internationally in public and private venues including Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; VI,VII, Oslo; Petit Palais, Paris; The Museum of Arts and Design; New York; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; IMO Projects, Copenhagen; Galerie Isa, Mumbai; Foxy Production; New York; and Ibid Projects, London, among numerous others. Despont’s work is featured in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon Press) and Louise Despont (Nicelle Beauchene Gallery / Ibid Projects). The artist is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Weston Price Film Award from Brown University, Princess Grace Grant recipient and Macdowell fellow. She lives and works between Bali and New York.

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Schedule

from April 23, 2015 to May 24, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-04-23 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Louise Despont

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