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4/7/2014

Peter Regli

Karma - Amagansett, New York

Karma is pleased to announce Sleeping Stone, an outdoor sculpture project by Swiss-born American artist Peter Regli.

Regli is best known for his ongoing project Reality Hacking, in which he stages temporary and anonymous interventions in public spaces that confront and resist our preconceptions of the contextual relationships between places and objects.

Regli will present a stylized landscape with carefully composed arrangements of marble sculptures depicting ancient statues, such as Hayagriva, the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu; religious idols, such as the Buddha; popular figurines such as the Japanese maneki-neko fortune cat; and household items, such as a child’s piggy bank—familiar images rendered unfamiliar by material reconstitution. The individual sculptures are arranged in groups of five or six, each group representing a sort of tribe of misfits—their gathering suggesting anthropomorphic activity or an unpredictable campaign. The figures, displaced from their usual circumstances and placed in new surroundings, are unified by their collective presence and material identity, and engage across their differences.

Regli’s use of marble, a medium originating with Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, signifies classical sculptural techniques and concerns, and bears associations of discerning taste and luxury. By standardizing the material value of these sourced objects, whose cultural and production values span high to low, Regli levels the playing field between a mass-produced toy and a hand-carved religious idol.

The found object, charged with inherent significance, altered in scale, material and mode of production, parodies expectations and facilitates unanticipated combinations—ephemeral and monolithic, archaic and new-age, unique and mass-produced. Sleeping Stone is a sociological study highlighting intersections of content and context with comical implications.

Opening reception Saturday July 5th, 6 – 8pm

Karma
249 Main Street - Amagansett, NY 11930
Open Monday – Sunday, 11 – 7pm

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