Ad Lib
dal 26/7/2011 al 1/9/2011
Segnalato da
Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher
Aaron Curry
Carsten Holler
Pierre Huyghe
Yayoi Kusama
Andy Warhol
Richard Wright
26/7/2011
Ad Lib
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
An exhibition featuring the work of Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Aaron Curry, Carsten Holler, Pierre Huyghe, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, and Richard Wright. Using the strategies of accumulation, saturation, and the repetitive mark, the artists explore their fascination with image-saturated space and 'alloverness' from delicate drawings to immersive environements.
Using the strategies of accumulation, saturation, and the repetitive mark, these artists explore their fascination with image-saturated space and “alloverness,” from the delicate controlled lines of Richard Wright’s untitled drawing (2005) to the jostling interaction of Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds (1994); from Carsten Höller’s Wonderful (2008), which charges its surroundings and assaults the senses with nerve-shattering flashing lights to Pierre Huyghe’s more meditative video installation Les Grands Ensembles (The Housing Project, 2001), in which the exterior view of an apartment pulses with light, building to a patterned visual crescendo that envelops the screen.
Works by Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Yayoi Kusama, and Aaron Curry are immersive environments, Chinese-box style: Cleijne/Gallagher’s installation Osedax (2010) – referring to a type of deep-sea bone-eating worm -- is free-standing room containing a continuous projection of 16mm film footage alongside slide projections of fragmented accumulations. A set of intricate photogravures with the same title (referring to a type of deep-sea, bone-eating worm) feature hand-stamping as well as cut-and-collaged bas relief on Japanese paper. Kusama’s Reach Up to the Universe, Dotted Pumpkin (2011) conflates two of her favorite motifs, the mirror and the pumpkin, which she has described as a sort of alter-ego. A hollow form cast in aluminum, highly polished, and perforated with holes to reveal a light blue interior, Reach Up… is installed in a matched monochrome environment dotted with convex mirrors of varying sizes, so that sculpture and environment endlessly reflect and multiply each other and the viewers moving between them. In Aaron Curry’s untitled installation, free-standing figures made of silkscreened plywood advance and recede against whimsical graphic backgrounds.
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Image: Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Osedax, 2009 Installation at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Opening: July 27, 2011
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
456 North Camden Drive - Beverly Hills
Hours: Tue-Sat 10-6
Free admission