NYAB Event - Carol Szymanski “a distance as close it can be”

Carol Szymanski “a distance as close it can be”

Elga Wimmer PCC

[Image: Carol Szymanski "a ball carried away" (2015) Cibachrome (unique print) 20 x 30 in. ]

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Elga Wimmer PCC presents its fourth solo exhibition of works by Carol Szymanski. The exhibition has been curated by Anne-Brigitte Sirois.

The Cibachrome photographs presented in this exhibition are offshoots of Szymanski’s 2015 sculpture series solfege inflatables and her 2015 painting series Icons: light reflections of the paintings’ colors bouncing off the Mylar silver surfaces of the sculpture. With these abstract yet accurate and unmanipulated images, Szymanski expands the language of her perceptual communication paradigm while deepening her conceptual investigation of Arnold Schönberg’s 12-tone serialism and Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura, “a strange weave of space and time, the unique appearance of a distance as close as it can be.”

The exhibition also includes a text work derived from Szymanski’s decade-long cockshut dummy email series. Here, parallel points of views and connecting perspectives converge allegorically through elusive sensorial feelings in various metaphorical situations:
“Then as to titillating the visual nature. A hand was raised in the audience, “Can you speak to the visual aspect of metaphor from your titled position as professor of philosophy of art, not aesthetics as you carefully denied earlier but pronounced instead your obedience to philosophy of art as a more clear definition of yourself?”

“The visual, I have nothing to say about as to its regards to metaphor because metaphor refers only to language.”
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the mere making thus becomes metaphor for its own sake for
if there is no metaphor in the visual as opposed to in the lingual then art merely postures itself in some identity theory or other.”

Carol Szymanski is an internationally exhibited artist who has been the recipient of the Rome Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, among others. She will launch Lost Contact With 12 Sentiments, a new work in the form of an instagram and an email, as a successor to the cockshut dummy on May 1, 2016.