Martin Klimas
dal 2/5/2007 al 15/6/2007
Segnalato da
2/5/2007
Martin Klimas
Foley Gallery, New York
Temporary Sculpture. With a strobe light and one sheet of film, Klimas captures each individual experience of porcelain figurines being dropped and obliterated. With fixed expressions, these statuettes fall to their fragile demise.
Temporary Sculpture
Foley Gallery is pleased to announce Temporary Sculpture, an exhibition of
photographs by German artist Martin Klimas. This show marks his first exhibition in
the United States.
By carefully controlling his studio environment, but leaving actions to chance,
Klimas creates images that hold a moment containing the past, present and future of
his subject. We see what was known, what is now and what will become. Yet, the
moment he shares is one that we could normally not optically register.
With a strobe light and one sheet of film, Klimas captures each individual
experience of porcelain figurines being dropped and obliterated. With fixed
expressions, these statuettes fall to their fragile demise. But Klimas is less
interested in the violence of the scene and more interested in the action as an
organized narrative process that creates new informal structures.
His Photographs explore the ephemera of moments and material objects. An object that
can be intact and so serene one minute can easily be destabilized and turned into an
animated and fragmented entity. The figurines display a perpetual sense of motion,
which in the cases of more action-oriented figures like the kung fu fighters
exaggerates the action that the character is already implying. For the figures that
are more passive in expression, this explosive aspect adds a disruptive quality to
an otherwise staid object.
The intention of this process is the creation of an entity that is the result of the
action. Every picture becomes a sculpture on its own, showing the transformation of
an object that no longer exists into a stationary object that we can only, for the
moment, imagine. There is a comforting idea amidst what appears to be violence and
chaos, which is the concept that this destruction can ultimately result in creation.
Martin Klimas received his diploma at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf in 2000. His
work has been exhibited gallery in galleries in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and
Milan. This will be his first exhibition in the United States.
Opening reception for the artist: Thursday, May 3, 6 - 8pm
Foley Gallery
547 West 27th Street - New York
Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm
Free admission