“It/Ness” Exhibition
Trestle Gallery (at Brooklyn Art Space)
This event has ended.
Artwork can be a source of mystery and quandary regarding how we approach objects, images, and events. Each experience with a work of art is cultivated for the distinct purpose of expanding our relationship with the world. Art movements like Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism were among the first to transform the notion of beauty in art. In Art the object, image, or event became its own justified vessel for meaning, radically negating the purpose of calling art beautiful. Each new art experience became loaded with attendant meaning.
Art is one part invention and one part artifact. Invention suggests a degree of industry and innovation. Artifact can suggest mining into the depth of knowledge and imagination, often resulting in the discovery of something lost. By this definition, an artifact can feel vague or incomplete, directing one to a larger and more complex definition. Its specious incompleteness hints at aspects yet unassigned. It pushes us toward something new.
‘IT’ refers to a quality, sometimes discovered and often invented. This quality often characterizes events where something new is seen for the first time. New territories are not beyond the boundaries of experience, but are found in looking differently at what we already know. The most commonplace of objects, gestures, or ideas, turned just slightly can resemble the unimagined and reverse the values of the world. Beauty has long since ceased to be the appreciation of appearance and has now become the smile produced when a new fact enters the world.
[Image: Nicola Ginzel “Transformed Objects Series” wasp nest, acrylic paint, plaster, 2.25 x 1 .5 x 1 in.]
Media
Schedule
from May 23, 2014 to July 02, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-05-23 from 19:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Madora Frey, Nicola Ginzel, Heide Hatry, Fawn Krieger, Seren Morey