Torgny Wilcke
dal 4/2/2005 al 12/3/2005
Segnalato da
4/2/2005
Torgny Wilcke
DCA Gallery, New York
Length to block - that's beat. The project examines the grounds for a modern painting, where form, color, surface, structure, material, and space, as well as how the viewers sees the painting, are central. These works are an examination of what is happening when the painting spreads out into space, taking a commanding position.
Length to block - that's beat
DCA Gallery is pleased to present the Danish artist Torgny Wilcke in his first exhibition at the gallery.
"Length to block - that's beat" is an exhibition featuring works wherein the underlying idea is central and that idea is visible in the finished work, i.e. the process, the execution and the construction of the work is clear and evident. Such qualities are experienced as painterly and are significant for a painterly process.
The project examines the grounds for a modern painting; a painting where form, color, surface, structure, material, and space, as well as how the viewers sees the painting, are central. These works are an examination of what is happening when the painting spreads out into space, taking a commanding position in space, a bit similar to previous installation exhibitions, but with a more painterly sense. In contrast to most installation exhibitions, it has single piece focus similar to traditional painting, while also flexible, open, and dependent and interacting with the actual exhibition space. It is a play and interaction with the external world through the use of everyday material and through the use of a quite practical process not too far from craftsman methods. The works retain a quality of being familiar and known from everyday, together with a sense of being unfamiliar, and being works of art.
The show includes stacks of painted lumber, lengths and blocks of painted canvases, intended to be seen as the stacks of lumber, bricks and other materials in the Home Depot or piles of paper, ring-binders and books in archives and public offices etc. These modules of material are physical stuff similar to the objects in IKEA. Most importantly, they can combine (they are open-ended in reality and the imaginary, as in the warehouse catalogues) depending on the place to be used and the person(s) to use them. One could say it is painting aimed at being physically persuasive and seductive, as you are walking in the middle of it (the space etc.) and possibly evoke a bodily sensation.
In the image: 'Orange', 2000.
A catalogue with text by Gabriel Shor from Vienna has been printed in conjunction with the exhibition.
DCA Gallery - 525 West 22nd Street - New York