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31/5/2011

Harold Ancart and Esther Klas

Archivio Emily Harvey, Venezia

Rise, Rose, Risen presents the work of two European artists Harold Ancart (Belgian, 1980) and Esther Kläs (German, 1981) living in New York. Of two distinctly different sensibilities, the artists work in differing modes with their own respective vocabularies. Kläs's oddly upbeat sculptural integers, formally reminiscent of everything from Easter Island to Rodin to Brancusi, present a striking contrast with Ancart's more moody environmental interventions, whose formal vocabulary is liable to bring to mind the likes of Claudio Parmiggiani to others. And yet, for all their formal dissimilarities, Ancart and Kläs share a kindred preoccupation with questions of materiality, presence and time.

Where Ancart's quasi-immaterial geometric wire sculptural interventions, reflective floors and dust mural drawings could be said to promote a heightened awareness of the viewing body in space, Kläs's humanoid and primitivistic plaster and resin sculptures humorously contest that same body by virtue of their disarming zeal to abstractly ape it. What is more, the timeless and intensely materialistic quality of these blocky, three-dimensional beings complement Ancart's dust murals, which inevitably speak to the passage of time with a certain elegiac and disenchanted gloom. Thus does the conjunction of these two artists seek to produce a complex and understated drama of form and texture, as droll as it is forlorn, and as immediate as it is meditative.
Chris Sharp

Opening Reception Wednesday June 1, 10am - 2pm

Emily Harvey Foundation
San Polo, 387 - 30125 Venezia
The exhibition will continue from June 1 - June 8, 2011, 11am - 7pm
free entry

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