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29/5/2009

Two Exhibitions

Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris

ERIC WHITE + DANIEL DAVIDSON

After the Wonderland show in 05 at the gallery, Eric White is back at the Magda Danysz Gallery with his latest works and a surprise guest : Daniel Davidson, both of them are the best artists of the Brooklyn actual generation. Eric White's thought-provoking, painstakingly rendered imagery is often breathtakingly beautiful while intensely disturbing. With his unusual approach to figuration, White attempts to tap into realities and dimensions that exist beyond the fringe of our perception. As Manuel Bello puts it, “Eric White’s paintings skills, the same guy who has shared the stage with the likes of Mark Ryden, Joe Sorren and The Clayton Brothers among others, are truly unbelievable to say the least. His work transcends time, reality, science and logic. It is rich in content and is visually mind blowing. He finds inspiration in metaphysics, with trace hints of iconic pop culture of years past.”

Davidson’s figurative paintings and works on paper reveal a highly subjective fusion of hybrid characters, spaces, and styles. The figures that populate his works are often selfportrait caricatures of an infinite variety of possible selves. His goal “is the creation of a meaningful reflection of the emotional states inherent in everyday experience. Often employing the comic or the grotesque, these paintings are multiple and fractured personalities looking for a cobbled identity.”

JENNIFER VASHER - TYLENOL ROOM

New sculptural works; Careful What Shelter You Choose, I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Solu, (Where they never have troubles at least very few), and To Another Good Year consists of thousands of multicolored pills, caplets, and tablets. Everything from the banal (baby aspirin & kids cartoon supplements) to life saving pharmaceuticals, homeopathic medicines, and herbal supplements is included creating both delicate, elegant, shimmer forms; and strong, clunky, ‘plastic’ net forms. “Pharmaceuticals run through our infrastructure-- our families and our country. You have a heart problem and without this - you die. I have pulled inspiration from and am reflecting on our overmedicated society (though I think some could use a little more help!!), the brilliant Dr. Seuss 's I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew' (--where they have never have troubles, at least very few), in combination with the Hindu concept of Maya, the Great Illusion.” admits artist Jennifer Vasher

The Tylenol Room Project

Jennifer Vasher’s Tylenol Room is a large installation consisting of a canopied room hung with multiple garlands of strung white pills. Over 550,000 aspirin went into the creation of this piece, individually drilled and strung like a traditional pearl necklace. The Tylenol Room is a meditation on loss and survival. Vasher’s process of stringing each individual pill is akin to saying the Catholic rosary, obsessively over and over and over again, and in so doing, is a prayer for redemption, hope, and faith. The Tylenol Room is like a gift, a deliverance from pain and suffering. More obviously, it is also an irreverent commentary on our overly medicated culture, and psychoanalysis. The Tylenol Room is the most recent in a series of works that are launched from personal events of solitude and great pain. In spite of this, Vasher’s sense of humor, play and beauty are obviously present. In the artist’s own words: “Sometimes I simply cannot help but see and expose the beautiful absurdity within our emotional, social, and sexual selves.” (All drugs are coated immediately with protective varnish and UV light stabilizers.)

Press contact : Sophie Nehoult, sophie@magda-gallery.com

Image: Jennifer Vasher

Opening on Saturday, May 30th , 2009 from 6 to 9 pm

Galerie Magda Danysz
78, rue Amelot - Paris
Free admission

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