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6/9/2005

Two exhibitions

Deitch Projects, New York

Raqib Shaw
Garden of Earthly Delights

76 Grand Street, New York

Deitch Projects is pleased to announce the first New York solo show by London based Kashmiri artist Raqib Shaw. Taking its title from the eponymous Hieronymous Bosch painting, Garden of Earthly Delights will feature five new paintings and twenty drawings describing the erotic underwater realm of Raqib’s imagination.

Oriental, psychedelic, surreal, pornographic, and decorative, these works feature efflorescent genetalia put to work by all manner of hybrid creature. In his outrageous private phantasmagoria we find surfaces nippled and crevassed, space enigmatic in a suffused underwater thicket, and time clenched in perpetual orgasm.

Raqib incorporates a veritable Natural History Museum catalogue of flora and fauna: fan coral, seaweed forests, anemones, limpets, sea turtles, anglerfish, coelacanths, writhing eels, skittering crustaceans, and turgid sea cucumbers lurk about. Echinodermata, nematoda, and chondricthyes: phylum with names as resplendent as the animal’s colorful execution.

But cohabiting below the surface we also playfully find terrestrial organisms: frilled lizards in threat display, phallus-headed underwater birds, dragonflies, bug-eyed tarsiers, and animal-headed man-beasts. These hybrids writhe and squirm in sportif sexual groupings across the effulgent surface.

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Jim Isermann
18 Wooster Street, New York

Jim Isermann’s twenty-five years of art practice have fixated on the exchange of visual information between high art and post war industrial design. While his influences certainly include Op Art, “supergraphics” and mid-century interior design, Isermann is an artist more in the tradition of a Renaissance architect--using simplicity, elegance, industry, and economy to chase utopian ideals of harmonious form and mathematical proportion.

Informed by these ideals, Isermann straightforwardly approaches a new project using a minimal palette of industrial color and the most economical and efficient materials. Thus without mystification or waste, Isermann adapts the formal language of fine-artists like Donald Judd or Bridget Riley to the utilitarian prescriptions of contemporary design. Here, Isermann has selected vacuum-formed plastic components for their smooth opaque finish, lightweight, and affordability.


Deitch Projects

76 Grand Street
Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

18 Wooster Street
Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

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