Klari Reis
dal 23/6/2013 al 5/7/2013
Segnalato da
23/6/2013
Klari Reis
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
Musings in Colour. The unifying theme of Klari's art is her mastery of a new media plastic, epoxy polymer, and the fine control she brings to its reactions with a constantly-expanding variety of dyes and pigments.
Klari Reis uses the tools and techniques of science in
her creative process, constantly experimenting with
new ways to apply materials and methods. She is
driven by curiosity and her desire to explore and
document the natural and unnatural with a sense of
wonder and joy.
The artist currently works in San Francisco, close to
one of the largest concentrations of life science
companies in the world. Klari takes advantage of this proximity to collaborate with local biomedical companies
and thus receive inspiration from the cutting edge of biological techniques and discoveries; this context grounds
her artwork and lets her authoritatively explore the increasingly fuzzy line between the technological and the
natural.
The unifying theme of Klari’s art is her mastery of a new media plastic, epoxy polymer, and the fine control she
brings to its reactions with a constantly-expanding variety of dyes and pigments. The UV-resistant plastic,
similar to resin, supplies a common framework for the methods and language that she uses to explore and
express interactions of material and color on a microscopic level. Compositions display brightly colored smears,
bumps and blobs atop aluminum and wood panels. She pigments the plastic with powders, oils, acrylics and
industrial dyes, built up through many layers of the ultra-glossy plastic. The shapes and colors bleed, blur, shift,
and spread becoming remarkable through their eccentric detail. A skilled technician with a studio for a
laboratory, Klari has turned these processes of her own invention into science in the service of her art.
Klari continues to develop her process and explore her unique synthesis of biology and creativity via
her installation works, Hypochondria. The projects consist of hand painted petri dishes mounted on the
wall at varying distances in groupings of 150, 60, or 30 pieces.
Klari Reis is represented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and public
collections include Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK; Next World Capital’s offices in San Francisco, Paris,
and Brussels; the MEG Centre in Oxford, UK; Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; The Peninsula Shanghai Hotel;
Theo Randall restaurant in London’s Intercontinental Hotel; Standard Life Investments in Bristol and London;
Morley Fund Management, The Pullman Group, T.Rowe Price and Great Ormond Street Hospital (Morgan
Stanley Clinical Building part of the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre) in London; the Stanford University Medical
Center Hoover Pavilion in California; and Elan Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, Acetelion and Cytokinetics in
South San Francisco.
Klari’s work has been featured in international publications such as The New York Times, GQ, Wired UK,
Nature Chemical Biology, Elle Magazine, Time Out London, Artweek San Francisco, Art in America, Art Ltd.
Magazine, Giornale Del Medico, Science Magazine, The Times, The New York Post, The Independent, Evening
Standard Magazine, Frieze Magazine, The Financial Times, San Francisco Business Times, BBC1, CNN
Business Report and CBS News Market Watch.
Image: Individual Petri dish detail.
For advance sales or further information email:
celia@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Gallery 27, 27 Cork Street, Mayfair, London W1
Nearest Tube: Green Park
Hours: Daily 11am – 7pm or by appointment