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18/2/2010

Two exhibitions

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Dan Walsh
Days And Nights

"Days and Nights," an exhibition of new paintings by Dan Walsh, will open at the Paula Cooper Gallery (521 West 21st Street) on Friday, February 19, and remain on view through March 27, 2010.

Walsh is known for paintings that employ linear geometry while at the same time subverting it with irregularly drawn shapes, inconstant lines and a pervasive wit. Over time, Walsh’s formal (yet purposefully casual) vocabulary has tended to concentrate around the repetition of simple strokes forming intricate, visually striking patterns, such as punctuated lines, cross-hatched grids, concentric squares and collapsed diamonds. Despite their layered complexity, Walsh’s paintings make no mystery of their process. They are "proposals" presenting various options, or ways in which programmatic ideas are realized. They suggest the shifting balance between the amount of control exerted over an image and the freedom or flexibility to let the image veer off in its own direction.

The exhibition includes six to eight new paintings, as well as a multipanel project titled Days and Nights, which will function as an experimental, self-reflective chart of Walsh’s own tangling with his painting process.

Dan Walsh was born in 1960. His work has been exhibited in national and international venues, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, the Centre national d’art contemporain in Nice, la Synagogue de Delme, France, CCNOA (Art + Architecture) in Brussels, Belgium and the Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz. His prints and limited-edition books were the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’Art et d’histoire, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also included in the Ljubljiana Biennial, Slovenia, and the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, France.

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Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
harmonichaos

The Paula Cooper Gallery will present Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s sound installation, harmonichaos, in its space on 23rd Street. The exhibition will open on February 19 and will remain on view through March 13, 2010.

harmonichaos consists of vacuum cleaners outfitted with harmonicas, lights and sound-frequency analyzers. As the vacuums turn on and off, the harmonicas fill the darkened space with sound. The installation will make use of architectural space to explore the viewer’s relationship to sound and sculptural objects.

The exhibition will coincide with "New Commission for the Curve," a one person show at the Barbican Centre for Contemporary Art, London (27 February - 23 May 2010), and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, another one-person exhibition at La Maison Rouge, Paris (19 February – 23 May, 2010).

A native of Nice, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in 1961. He lives and works in Sète, France. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the capcMusée, Bordeaux, France (1997), the ITT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo (2000), the Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel (2001), the "Printemps de Septembre" in Toulouse, France (2004) and the Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida (2005). In 2006, Boursier-Mougenot presented "états seconds," a one-person exhibition at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France. He recently took part in the 3rd Moscow Biennale, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. His work is in major public and private collections around the world, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, and several Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRACs) in France.

Image: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, harmonichaos, 2006

Paula Cooper Gallery
521 W 21st Street and 465 W 23rd Street New York NY 10011
Gallery Hours: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Tuesday - Saturday

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