Ernesto Klar “Invisible Disparities, 2011-2014”
Postmasters Gallery
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Postmasters presents Invisible Disparities, a multi-faceted project of Venezuelan artist Ernesto Klar. Truly epic in its scope, Invisible Disparities proposes an experimental montage of cultural history, a reading of temporality in our material world.
In 2011, Ernesto Klar embarked on a three-year journey to collect dust from around the world. He began by selecting locations – forty of them – where a plurality of histories, times, and potentialities physically co-exist within their man-made infrastructural elements. Locations range from well-known to unfamiliar historical sites, from ancient sites to contemporary past sites. The West Bank, Rwanda, Hiroshima, Hollywood, Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Warsaw, Petra, Moscow, Dhaka, Havana, Sydney, and Ho Chi Minh City are among them. Klar traveled to each location to collect, store, and archive its dust. These processes are methodically documented on video, where the artist is seen always wearing the same uniform and using a portable duster to vacuum the dust. This performative action, the actual vacuuming of dust, represents for the artist a centrifugal gesture that instigates, both literally and metaphorically, the convergence of disparate temporal, historical, and material relationships. After having collected dust at all sites, the artist created a sculpture by mixing together and then fusing the dust under intense heat. Klar refers to the resulting sculptural work as one anthropic rock, or a man-made rock, in which invisible disparities join one another and transmute into new matter. Separately, Klar has created an artist book that archives individual dust samples for every site in hermetically sealed glass vials. All forty videos, anthropic rock and the book will be on view.
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Schedule
from March 07, 2015 to April 18, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-07 from 17:30 to 20:00