Jarrod Beck “Temple”
Kentler International Drawing Space
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Kentler presents Temple, a solo installation of new work by artist Jarrod Beck.
The textile-drawings in this exhibition are the result of Beck’s January 2018 collaboration with the artisans at Mansun Farm in in the state of Gujarat in western India. They are based on a series of 11 drawings that describe the interaction between a figure and a landscape in their mutual effort to build a temple. The Temple being built is a simple one: the space between two planes narrowing to a vertical shaft intersects with two planes narrowing to a horizontal band. The installation represents one possible arrangement of many parts, characters in different times, physical environments and imagined worlds. The Temple is the place in which you stand and the space in you where you make room for the ideas in front of you.
The drawings in Temple began with graphite lines on paper and the textile works represent the first step of these lines extruding into the third dimension. Most of the fabric is khadi, a hand-woven cotton special to the Gujarat and tied to the region’s history in textile production. Each piece of khadi, silk, muslin and nylon in this show was washed, dyed, block-printed, machine- and hand-sewn; each person who worked on them expanded Beck’s understanding of the original drawing and the future building they will form.
A brochure featuring an interview with the artist by Alex Fialho accompanies the exhibition.
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Schedule
from March 09, 2018 to April 29, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-03-09 from 18:00 to 20:00