Philip Loersch / Heimir Bjorgulfsson
dal 30/4/2010 al 18/6/2010
Segnalato da
30/4/2010
Philip Loersch / Heimir Bjorgulfsson
Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Loersch's drawings and cutouts create a vocabulary of lines and shapes used to create complex, filigree structures that float freely in space. In the project space gallery a new work by Icelandic artist Bjorgulfsson: Memorable Memories. His sculptures combine unlikely elements such as taxidermy birds, porcupine quills, vinyl records, and collage elements to create fragile constructions that embody mans relationship with his surroundings.
Philip Loersch
Everything Aligned
François Ghebaly Gallery is pleased to present Everything Aligned, the first exhibition in the
United-States by German artist Philip Loersch (born in 1980).
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Archimedes
“Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful,
would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.” Stephen Hawking
Loersch's intricate drawings and cutouts create a unique vocabulary of lines and shapes used to
create complex, filigree structures that float freely in space. Investigating the juxtaposition of
Ancient scientific diagrams over most recent approaches to scientific representations, Loersch is
asking fundamental questions about the process of drawing.
Playing with abstraction and figuration, Loersch reinvents scientific diagrams moving away from
the academic approach, and focusing on the aesthetics of the logics of physics. Ruled by a set of
physical laws of their own, these drawings create a series of unstable systems colliding with each
other within the gallery space creating its own universe.
Philip Loersch has had solo shows in Düsseldorf at Ursula Walbröl Galerie and in Berlin at Jette
Rudolphe Galerie. Selected exhibitions include Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, the Sunshine
International Museum in Beijing, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and the Kunsthaus Zürich. He lives and
works in Berlin, Germany.
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PROJECT SPACE: Heimir Björgúlfsson
François Ghebaly Gallery is pleased to present a new work by Icelandic artist Heimir Björgúlfsson
Memorable Memories in its project space. Björgúlfssonʼs sculptures combine unlikely elements
such as taxidermy birds, porcupine quills, butterflies, vinyl records, and collage elements to create
fragile constructions that embody mans relationship with his surroundings.
He is currently having
a solo exhibition at Barbara Seiler Galerie in Zürich, Switzerland and will present a new solo
exhibition at Western Project, Los Angeles in July. Born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland, he lived
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands where he studied at The Gerrit Rietveld Academy and The
Sandberg Institute before moving to Los Angeles in 2005 where he now lives and works.
Image: Philip Loersch
Opening Reception Saturday, May 1 2010, 6 - 9PM
Francois Ghebaly Gallery
510 Bernard Street 23, Los Angeles
Wednesday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm