Constructed Worlds
dal 17/3/2005 al 23/4/2005
Segnalato da
17/3/2005
Constructed Worlds
f a projects, London
Hillary Bleecker, Jacob Melchi, Jane South, Will Yackulic. An exhibition of works on paper by four emerging artists based in the US. The exhibition takes as its theme the meeting point of personal imagination or narrative fiction and formal, architectural or textual construction.
Hillary Bleecker, Jacob Melchi, Jane South, Will Yackulic
Constructed Worlds is an exhibition of works on paper by four emerging artists based in the US. The exhibition takes as its theme the meeting point of personal imagination or narrative fiction and formal, architectural or textual construction.
Will Yackulic’s world is perhaps the most difficult to place. It seems very much a product of its moment. Texts, buildings and landscapes are built out of tiny units; three dimensional building bricks which seem the constituents of a digital rather than physical architecture. It’s almost if the blueprint of some fantastical city has become infected by the program for a lo-tec computer game, producing structures that assemble for an instant to form words or buildings, only to dissolve into entropy a moment later.
Jane South’s constructions share the same fascination with the possibility of drawing in three dimensions. South uses models of architectural or mechanical elements cut from card to make assemblages that grow out from the wall. While their first point of reference might be the constructions of Tatlin or Gabo, their hand-cut aesthetic shifts their field of meaning towards a fragile and playful imaginary landscape.
Hillary Bleecker’s new works combine text, abstraction and the penetrable nature of paper. Word-strings, produced through stream of consciousness contemplation, are cut out of paper, and spin off into a perspectival illusion. Here too, texts form landscapes, alongside ambiguous repeating organic patterns.
Of the four artists, Jacob Melchi’s work manifests the clearest co-existence of narrative and image, of imagined and constructed worlds. In the series of small drawings Decisions (2005), narrative episodes that read like diary entries are juxtaposed in an unlikely partnership with formalist experiments, both described and put into practice.
Hillary Bleecker, based Los Angeles, MFA UCLA Los Angeles, recent exhibitions, Kontainer Gallery LA, Vedanta Gallery Chicago, UCLA Hammer Museum: International Paper 2003. Jacob Melchi – based Los Angeles graduated MFA Otis College of Art and Design, LA 2003. Forthcoming exhibition: Everything in Particular, ACME gallery, Los Angeles. Jane South - born Manchester, UK, lives and works New York – recent exhibitions include Spencer Brownstone New York Suzanne Vieltmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles and MASS MOCA. Will Yackulic - based San Francisco, BFA SUNY, recent exhibition Finest Pure, Adobe Books, SF.
Image: Jane South, Untitled (Yellow and Grey Construction), 2004. Cut and folded paper, acrylic, ink and balsa. 107 x 48 x 23 cm
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