Joel Shapiro "New Work"
The Pace Gallery (534 W 25th St)
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Joel Shapiro’s new body of work is composed of painted rough wood elements suspended in space from the walls, the floor and ceiling via string. Shapiro cuts the wood and paints it with dry pigment in casein emulsion, either before or after it has been suspended. The configurations float and intersect on lines of various angles and tensions. Some are elastic, others more rigid. The string is the structure that supports the individual elements of the form. The string itself is high or low tech, simple fishing line. The floating elements are, for the most part, carefully trimmed three-dimensional wood. The fastenings are industrial.
The artist explains that the installation is “really about discovering the possibilities of the organization of form,” while “simultaneously overcoming the inevitable effect the constructed flatness of architecture (or for that matter a tabletop) has on the situation of form.” The works’ installation is determined in the space. Although they utilize architecture, “they are not about flatness as a starting point,” but rather “the projection of thought into space without the constraint of architecture.”
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Schedule
from April 17, 2010 to May 15, 2010