Meyer Vaisman
dal 30/11/2014 al 12/2/2015
Segnalato da
30/11/2014
Meyer Vaisman
KaBe Contemporary, Miami
For this exhibitions the artist presents a new body of works that reflects on his own practice of the past 28 years, while forging a new and concentrated exploration on ideas of self-representation through a coded abstraction.
KaBe Contemporary is pleased to present Venezuelan-born artist Meyer Vaisman’s solo exhibition in Miami since 2010. The show will feature new large-scale works with new materials and techniques. Vaisman has been living and working in Barcelona for the last 14 years.
Vaisman presents a new body of works that reflects on his own practice of the past 28 years, while forging a new and concentrated exploration on ideas of self-representation through a coded abstraction. Since the mid-1980s, Vaisman has sought to create paintings without his hand or touch, and his earliest works employed mechanical techniques and commercial processed inks. He continues his interest in photomechanical reproduction and its transformation into digital printing, employing the most current available technologies and creating inkjet paintings on industrial plywood. Where the artist previously zoomed in on the canvas weave of a picture’s surface, these new works draw our attention to the back, wooden stretcher bars of a painting: everything is inside out, back to front, upside down, and mirror-imaged. The primary motif in this exhibition is Vaisman’s own signature. While a signature is the smallest gestural mark one makes on a daily basis, it is rendered useless and impersonal by repetition. The artist’s early works articulated the displacement of actual painting by simulated and reproduced imagery; his new paintings investigate the idea of self as subject through the deployment, repetition, and layering of his own autographic mark or thumb print.
Meyer Vaisman was born 1960 in Caracas, Venezuela and studied at Parson School of Design, NY. He founded the now legendary artist run gallery International With Monument in the East Village in 1984, showcasing the work of Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Ashley Bickerton, Sarah Charlesworth, Robert Smithson, and Peter Halley, among others. Vaisman made his solo debut in 1986 at White Columns and has exhibited regularly and internationally. Vaisman’s exhibitions include Jay Gorney Modern Art, NY; Sonnabend Gallery, NY; Leo Castelli, NY; 303 Gallery, NY; Mario Diacono, Boston; Patrick Painter, Inc., LA; Daniel Templon, Paris; Akira Ikeda, Tokyo; and Waddington Galleries, London, among others; his last solo gallery exhibition in Miami was in 2010 at KaBe Contemporary. Vaisman’s work has been included in the Venice Biennale (2003) and The Carnegie International (1988) as well as notable exhibitions, including East Village USA at New Museum, NY (2004); Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art at PS1, NY; No Place (Like Home) at The Walker Art Center, MN (1997); and Post Human, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, at The Deste Foundation, Athens (1992, traveled). His work is included in numerous museum collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Walker Art Center, MN; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; La Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas; MOCA Los Angeles; The Broad Foundation; The Hammer Museum, LA; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv.
Image: Meyer Vaisman /Ars Brevis Vita Longa
Opening: Monday 1 December 2014 17 pm
KaBe Contemporary
223 N.W. 26 Street
Tue - Fri 11am to 5pm