Two exhibitions
dal 21/9/2005 al 23/11/2005
Segnalato da
Lynn Davis
Anselm Kiefer
Richard Long
Charles Simonds
Robert Mangold
Brice Marden
Joan Mitchell
21/9/2005
Two exhibitions
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Landscape: Myth and Memory. Lynn Davis: 3 large-scale photographs of the Pyramid of Nakatamani at Meroe. In the book-as-sculpture Anselm Kiefer combines sand with photographed images of archeological ruins in Egypt. Richard Long's walks, by definition ephemeral and temporal, are documented photographically, with the addition of words and maps. Charles Simonds: wall pieces and sculptures which present geographical forms where human presence is reduced to a memory. In the Project Gallery: Early Prints by Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Joan Mitchell
Landscape: Myth and Memory
Works by Lynn Davis, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Charles Simonds
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by four artists: Lynn Davis, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, and Charles Simonds, whose exploration of landscape themes, be it imaginary or experiential, maintains an intense dialogue with the past.
In her large-scale photographs of architectural monuments, Lynn Davis articulates the omnipotent forces of time and nature upon the physical world. On view at Senior & Shopmaker are three views of the Pyramid of Nakatamani at Meroe, Sudan-a monument left to signify the spiritual beliefs of ancient cultures. Davis' vision extends beyond her 19th Century photographic influences to challenge and reaffirm the immutability of these sites as places of awe and power. Her elemental compositions purify her subject to its simplest archetypal form, turning the image itself into an object of contemplation, or elegy for troubled times.
Anselm Kiefer's elegiac oeuvre is based on a complex system of themes and references relating to the human condition, and mines such diverse sources such as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy, and literature. Since the early 1970s, landscape for Kiefer has been an archetypal setting in which historical events occur, rather than the idealized and pastoral construct of German tradition. In the book-as-sculpture included in the exhibition, Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World, 1987, Kiefer combines sand with photographed images of archeological ruins in Egypt, merging means, subject, and content into a non-narrative and intensely physical process.
The experience of landscape is intensely physical for Richard Long as well, as it involves a personal journey as he walks through remote landscapes in Britain and elsewhere. Nature provides subject and source for the artist, and the notion of impermanence is an abiding principle in his wall drawings and sculpture. Long's walks, by definition ephemeral and temporal, are documented photographically, with the addition of words and maps, providing visual signs or memory of the artist's creation.
Charles Simonds creates Lilliputian structures in clay evoking the lives and times of imagined peoples. His outdoor art of the 1970s, placed in urban settings, was as site specific as that of Richard Long or Robert Smithson. These fragile pieces were not intended to be collected but to present highly charged, temporary collisions between the past and the present day in ruins. The wall pieces and free-standing sculptures on view at Senior & Shopmaker, dating from 1978 to 2001, present geographical forms such as plateaus, cliffs, and mountains in a state of flux or ruin, where human presence is reduced to a memory.
Project Gallery: Early Prints by Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Joan Mitchell
Image: Richard Long
Reception Thursday, September 22, 6-8 PM
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
21 East 26th Street
New York
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