Jedediah Caesar Exhibition
D'Amelio Gallery
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The exhibition presents new multi-panel wall sculptures as well as large-scale works. The artist is calling the larger mound-shaped works “horizon sculptures” and will produce them in Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park just prior to the opening.
Caesar’s medium is his own material – a unique amalgamation of resin, earth and detritus. Much of the internal structure of the sculptures, petrified matter, retains legibility while other bits smolder and disintegrate into micro-storms of frozen perforations. The panel sculptures are layered with raw debris and sloping patterns of muted, secondary-colored resins. Caesar’s sculptures are abstract landscapes and relate as much to painting as to experimental film. Like animated shifts between film cells, the pattern of these panels seems to repeat, but deviates with subtlety.
For the new horizon sculptures, Caesar will excavate shallow pits, coring and exploring Socrates’ Sculpture Park, formerly an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite. The artist will use the park’s reconstituted earth as a specific site to dig holes. Caesar’s plaster-cast sculptures will document the shape of his dig and will be inverted into particle-encrusted relief sculpture for the gallery exhibition.
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Schedule
from February 27, 2010 to May 01, 2010