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28/6/2006

Group show

Cohan and Leslie, New York

Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel, T. Kelly Mason

Pierre Bismuth (lives in Brussels, born 1963) is best known for videos and objects that subvert the products of contemporary culture. We will show three works from an ongoing series called “Collages For Men" in which Bismuth appropriates images from porn magazines, undermining their lascivious purpose with the addition of cut-out, collaged clothing. We will also show a new sculpture called “One thing made from another, One thing used as another", consisting of an oversized reproduction of a MoMA poster illustrating Jasper Johns’ ‘Flag’ painting from 1954-55, folded origami-style to mimic a typical Donald Judd “Box" sculpture.

Ryan Gander (lives in London, born 1976) will exhibit works from a new series of unique photographs that document sections of a large cork board covered with pinned postcards, magazine clippings, notes, email correspondance and photographs that construct several intersecting narratives. The wall of cork board itself was recently exhibited in the Tate Britain’s “Tate Triennial" exhibition, but with all of the ephemera removed leaving a modernist composition of ghostly sun stains. Ryan Gander is also the subject of a current solo show at the Galeria Arte Moderna in Bologna, Italy.

Karl Haendel’s (lives in Los Angeles, born 1976) seductive graphite drawings reproduce appropriated cultural artifacts, press photographs, cartoons and text installed in groupings that construct personal narratives, skewer American consumer culture and form subtle political and cultural critiques. Haendel will exhibit his largest work to date, incorporating 11 drawings spread over 35 feet that form a meditation on 60s technology and Cold War culture. Karl Haendel’s work was most recently the subject of a solo show at MoCA Los Angeles. He is also included in the "Uncertain States of America" exhibition currently on view at Bard College.

T. Kelly Mason (lives in Los Angeles, born 1964) is known for installations and videos that blur the distinctions between art and music in a diverse body of sound works, sculptures, photographs, videos and drawings. We will show a new sculptural installation called “Rain, Rain, Rain, Up in Smoke and Down the Drain" consisting of an architectural environment made of aluminum tubing and packing blankets. Installed on the interior are speakers playing multi channel recordings that mimic sounds associated with rain and a text based video. Most recently, T. Kelly Mason’s film “Jump", made in collaboration with Diana Thater, was one of the most written about and reproduced works in the Whitney Museum’s recent Biennial Exhibition.

Image: Karl Haendel, Post-War and Contemporary Group, 2005-06. Pencil on paper, c-print, charcoal on paper 11 parts: dimensions variable

Cohan and Leslie
138 Tenth Avenue (between 18th and 19th Streets), New York
Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 6pm.

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