“FLAT???” Exhibition

Kentler International Drawing Space

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Guest Curator: William Stover
Artists:
Golnar Adili, Hedwig Brouckaert, Yvette Cohen, Kate Beck, Takuji Hamanaka, Hannah Israel, Michael Kukla, Morgan O’Hara, Gahae Park, Jaanika Peerna, Gelah Penn, Carol Prusa, Mary Ting, Hugh Williams, Geoffrey Young

Kentler International Drawing Space presents Flat??? Selections from the Kentler Flatfile, curated by Independent Curator, William Stover.
An exhibition in two parts, featuring drawings and work on paper by fifteen artists.

(back gallery space)
Flat??? Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
Inspired by the concept of the Flatfiles themselves, this exhibition examines the viewing space contained both within and outside of the files. How do we understand a work when viewed looking down into the drawers and experiencing the work as, arguably, one dimensional, or “flat?” How do we understand that same object when taken out of the file and placed on the wall in the space of the gallery? Does the shift from one dimension to two or three dimensionalities change the object intellectually, physically and conceptually? Is our relationship to the work dependent on the space in which the work is located? Does that relationship change when the work is moved from one space the other?

Traditionally, drawing is held on the surface of its support - charcoal, ink or paint on paper - but over the last four decades artists have gone beyond the limits of the medium, moving beyond the space of the material itself and into the space previously inhabited by the viewer. The works selected for this exhibition make us question not only the space contained within the object, but also the space in which the object resides. The nine artists, each in their own way, insert their work into the time and three-dimensional space of the lived world.

(front gallery space)
Focus on the Flatfiles: Flat???
Conceived of as an inversion to the concepts of space and dimension created by the works contained in Selections from the Flatfiles, this exhibition features the work of six artists that follows a more conventional construction and representation of dimension and space. Seemingly contained within the flatness of the picture plane, the objective of these artists it not to create the illusion of space, but to articulate spatial concepts ranging from the physical spaces we inhabit to the psychological dimensions of an inner world. However in opposition to the work in Selections, these work recede and shift into a dimension beyond and behind the support. Like Lucio Fontana, these artists explore time and movement, by reaching beyond illusionism into what he called “a free space” past the flatness of the plane.