Eric Fertman Exhibition

Susan Inglett Gallery

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Susan Inglett Gallery presents the recent work of Eric Fertman in his fourth solo exhibition with the Gallery.

Eric Fertman continues to produce witty and edgy sculpture with big attitude. His wry approach is a means of tackling topical issues through disjuncture. In doing so Fertman suggests the remove we often experience as bystanders to global cataclysms. Modern reality is constructed largely through images and in-turn our confrontation with social and biological strife is constantly mediated. Akin to Rousseau’s encounter with the jungle, it is this artistic license that accounts for Fertman’s immolated and eviscerated forms that merge the vegetal and the zoological into disquieting abstract compositions.

Working with wood is inevitably a reductive process, Fertman makes this all the more so by continuing to employ a proscriptive vocabulary of shapes which range from the humble to the holy: hot dogs, house plants and ziggurats inclusive. These top-heavy, tilted and bent structures evoke a scene of damnation or an arcadia gone rogue. As though he is constructing the set for a sci-fi version of Lord of the Flies based in LA, the McDonalds’ arch is positioned in stark contrast to modernist architectural elements, a toasted palm frond abuts a knobby joint, jagged edges adjoin smooth bulbous and fleshy forms. Although precariously balanced formally and conceptually, these damaged bodies are ultimately static and pacific; it is the calm after the storm.

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Schedule

from March 19, 2015 to April 25, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-03-19 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Eric Fertman

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