The Materialization of Sensibility
dal 13/9/2006 al 13/10/2006
Segnalato da
13/9/2006
The Materialization of Sensibility
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The exhibition explores the intrinsic relationship between art and alchemy. Curated by Klaus Ottmann. At the opening will be present the publication of Ottmann’s new book, Thought Through My Eyes: Writings on Art, 1977-2005.
Leslie Tonkonow and Spring Publications, Inc. invite you to celebrate the exhibition
The Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy, curated by Klaus Ottmann, and
the publication of Ottmann’s new book, Thought Through My Eyes: Writings on Art,
1977-2005.
The exhibition explores the intrinsic relationship between art and alchemy.
Among the works on view, ranging from the 1960s to the present, will be John
Chamberlain’s #33 (1966), a rarely exhibited sculpture made by cutting, folding, and
tying polyurethane foam; Man Ray’s gilded book object Le'vres d’or (1967);
Yves Klein’s Table bleue (1961/2006), filled with blue pigment; Andy Warhol’s Silver
Cloud (c. 1966); Walter De Maria’s stainless-steel High Energy Bar (c. 1966); works
by Roberts Watts, including a 1977 lead box entitled Radioactive Substance and
Chromed Stones (1963); James Lee Byars’s gilded Philosophical Nail (1986); Teresita
Fernández’s Burnout (2005), an amorphous configuration of small glass cubes;
a drawing from Spencer Finch’s Studies on Alchemy (1997); and a 2006 painting by
Dean Byington, entitled Tourmaline, an imaginary landscape of prismatic crystals.
Klaus Ottmann is an independent curator and scholar based in New York. His most
recent curatorial project, Still Points of the Turning World, the Sixth SITE Santa
Fe International Biennial, remains on view through January 7, 2007. He has also
curated major retrospective surveys of Wolfgang Laib and James Lee Byars. Ottmann
recently translated Gershom Scholem’s book Alchemy and Kabbalah into English and is
the author of Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective; The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary
and the Postmodern Condition; James Lee Byars: Life, Love, and Death, as well as
many other books, articles, and essays on art and philosophy. He is Chairperson of
the Department of Cultural Studies and Søren Kierkegaard Professor of Media
and Communications at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fe, Switzerland.
Opening: Thursday, September 14, 2006 6 - 8 pm
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor - New York