Laura Riboli
dal 18/2/2010 al 26/3/2010
Segnalato da
18/2/2010
Laura Riboli
Wallspace Gallery, New York
Proclivities. Riboli's new works consider the uncanny physicality of the human form. Her 3 videos and related photographs explore the relationship between the body and geometry, enlisting actors to engage with the kinds of minimal shapes (a hoop, a ball, a triangle) that earlier works examined in isolation.
Wallspace is pleased to present our second solo exhibition with Los
Angeles based artist Laura Riboli.
This exhibition marks a new direction for Riboli. While earlier works
used a combination of puppetry and animation to present minimalist
objects as quasi-sentient beings moving of their own volition,
Riboli's new works consider the uncanny physicality of the human form.
Her three videos and related photographs explore the relationship
between the body and geometry, enlisting actors to engage with the
kinds of minimal shapes (a hoop, a ball, a triangle) that earlier
works examined in isolation. Here, the body is presented as a site of
abstraction.
In Rolls, Tosses, Rotations (ball), 2009 and Rolls, Passages,
Rotations, Walkovers (hoop), 2009, Riboli places her once-animated
objects into real-time relationships with the bodies that manipulate
them. Using a pearlescent ball and hoop respectively, a lone figure,
dressed in a simple grey leotard, interacts with these objects in a
series of gymnastic movements that dialectically demarcate the
figure’s form, and the contours of the object itself.
A third video focuses expressly on the site of interaction between the
body and the object it manipulates. Shot with a camera at 120 frames
per second and played back in slow motion, the object and hand perform
quotidian movements to form a kind of minimalist choreography.
The photographic works crystallize these relationships, highlighting
the abstract possibilities of both figure and object. Using a painted
hand as a stand in for the human form, and nodding to Yvonne Rainer’s
Hand Movie from 1966, Riboli records a series of minute
gestures, creating a visual synecdoche of body and appendage.
Laura Riboli’s work has been included in exhibitions at Taxter &
Spengemann (New York), Laura Bartlett Gallery (London), Rhona Hoffman
Gallery (Chicago), and LACMA (Los Angeles).
For further information or to obtain viewing dvds, please contact Elizabeth Lovero via email: elizabeth@wallspacegallery.com or by phone at (212) 594 9478
Image: Still from Perpetual Painting, Single channel video projection with sound, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, February 19th from 6 – 8 pm
Wallspace
619 West 27 Street New York, New York 10001
Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11-6