Carl Andre
Polly Apfelbaum
Louise Bourgeois
Tony Feher
Peter Fischli
David Weiss
Tom Friedman
Katharina Fritsch
Roni Horn
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Donald Judd
Rei Naito
Cornelia Parker
The artists in this exhibition represent a variety of generations and employ strikingly different approaches with regard to both material and subject. Yet here they share a practice of stacking elements and objects to create artworks.
Carl Andre, Polly Apfelbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Tony Feher, Peter Fischli and
David Weiss, Tom Friedman, Katharina Fritsch, Roni Horn, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Judd, Rei Naito, and Cornelia Parker
'Stacking is a basic and primal activity. You put children in a room with
some things, and they stack them on top of each other. It's something that
humans do.' Â Tony Feher, interview with Adam Weinberg, 2001
D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present Stacked, its seventh annual curated
group exhibition. The artists in this exhibition represent a variety of
generations and employ strikingly different approaches with regard to both
material and subject. Yet here they share a practice of stacking elements
and objects to create artworks.
Donald Judd's classic ten-unit vertical 'stack'x{2039}repeating positive and
negative six-inch spacesx{2039}implies a continuity of form that extends beyond
the sculpture itself and represents the essence of his mantra 'one thing
after another.' Carl Andre's Sulcus, comprised of orthogonally stacked
timbers, exemplifies the artist's central premise that 'rather than cut
into the material, I now use the material as the cut into space'
Katharina Fritsch is represented by Display Stand with Vases (1987/89/2001),
a large-scale, delicately stacked pyramid of 145 commercially-produced vases
designed by the artist. Felix Gonzalez-Torres 'Untitled' (Republican
Years), 1992, a work of stacked individual sheets of paper x{2039}free for the
taking like leaflets or flyersx{2039}breaks open the traditional definition of
'public' sculpture. Ohne Titel (1984), an early photograph by Peter Fischli
and David Weiss, uses the sculptural energy produced by precariously
balanced household objects in the service of a dynamic photographic
composition.
Enigma Machine (1993-95) by Polly Apfelbaum is evidence of a developmental
stage for the artist when 'stacking and folding were important in going
from two to three dimensions, allowing works to open and close.' Louise
Bourgeois' Untitled (1953) is a totemic stack of bronze casts of irregular
wooden pieces that humorously underlines the phallic connotations of
verticality in sculpture.
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D'Amelio Terras represents Polly Apfelbaum, Erica Baum, Delia Brown, Tony
Feher, Joanne Greenbaum, Glenn Ligon, John Morris, Rei Naito, Rika Noguchi,
Damián Ortega, Cornelia Parker, Miguel Rio Branco, Karin Sander, Joe
Scanlan, and Yoshihiro Suda.
D Amelio Terras
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