Alberto De Michele, Gregory Gentert and Adam Gordon Exhibition
Andrew Kreps Gallery
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Andrew Kreps Gallery presents a group show featuring works by Alberto De Michele, Gregory Gentert and Adam Gordon. The works in the exhibition are informed by an interest in storytelling, and originate from narratives that revolve around ideas of identity, perception, and issues of physical and psychological control.
Alberto De Michele’s work blurs boundaries between reality and fiction, often through the theme of criminality. His videos and video-installations are born form encounters with people that live on society’s fringes, legally and physically. His works confound and complicate their own points of view, forcing the viewer to suspend moral judgment. The protagonists of “I Lupi (The Wolves)” are a group of thieves from the north of Italy, who operate only in heavy fog – fog that makes everything, including them, invisible. De Michele realized the work in collaboration with the Wolves and the assistance of his father, who is directly involved with the group. In the video, actual criminal acts are never documented, and the artist’s role remains unclear.
Gregory Gentert’s photographs are a profound investigation of the distance between reality and the artist’s own perception of it. The subjects of the works are places or people familiar to him and the scenarios have a seemingly banal and mundane tone. His own psychological stake in these situations is privileged and exaggerated, dominating the works as they move towards the unsettling.
Adam Gordon’s work spans installation, video and painting, challenging the viewer’s perceptual framework and eliciting a re-examination of the sensory experience. The paintings in the exhibition, virtuoso in their approach, depict their subjects in moments of isolation with a focus that enacts an intense interrogation of their identities. A feeling of stillness pervades the works, but despite their tangibility, they evoke vicissitudes and duration, like months lengthening into years
Alberto De Michele (Venice, Italy, 1980), lives and works between Amsterdam and Cali, Colombia. He studied at the Sandberg Institute and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and at Cooper Union, New York. “I Lupi” (The Wolves)”, was awarded the Rotterdam Film Festival Short Film Prize in 2011 and was nominated for the European Film Awards the same year. It has been screened in numerous film festivals across Europe and at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among other venues.
Gregory Gentert (Doylestown, PA, 1983), lives and works in Brooklyn. He has exhibited at the Fisher Landau Center and Andrew Kreps Gallery. He obtained his BFA in Photography from RIT and his MFA from Columbia University in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Andrew Fisher Fellowship.
Adam Gordon (St. Paul, MN, 1986), lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his MFA at Yale University in 2011. His work has been shown at Derek Eller Gallery, New York, Know More Games, Brooklyn, and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, among others.
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Schedule
from May 14, 2015 to June 20, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-05-14 from 18:00 to 20:00