Alterational
dal 18/10/2001 al 3/12/2001
Segnalato da
18/10/2001
Alterational
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art - Old location, New York
A special project by Stephen Hendee. During the last three years Hendee has realized fifteen environmental installations with simple materials like foam core, tape and fluorescent lights. The work of the young artist is developed from a simple concept: an installation can be experienced just if it is possible to move through it.
Priska C. Juschka is happy to announce the opening of her new space
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at 212 Berry Street (between North 3rd and
Metropolitan Ave.)
The inaugural exhibition, entitled Alterational is an impressive project
by Stephen Hendee, the Californian artist, who has conquered the
critics and the attention of the press.
During the last three years Hendee has realized fifteen environmental
installations with simple materials like foam core, tape and fluorescent
lights. The work of the young artist is developed from a simple concept:
an installation can be experienced just if it is possible to move through
it.
Every one of these spaces becomes for the spectator a voyage through
a virtual reality, the beginning of an experience that involves all our
senses. The world of Hendee is apparently an accidental assemblage
of geometric shapes where the materials interact between themselves
and they create a hypnotic architecture of light and fake shadows, of
colors and matter. All of them contribute to the creation of an
aesthetic, a concrete substance of calculations of a visionary
geometry.
Hendee plays with our perceptions and he makes us participate in his
experience as if in a science fiction movie, dragging us in to his
ephemeral world. Everything seems to contribute to the realization of
his goals: the lights diffuse through foam board and the "motif" a
deceptively casual disorder of the adhesive tapes becomes the
seductive language of a new aesthetic. Hendee wants to put the
spectator in front of his passivity, trying to demonstrate the impressive
influence that architecture or an environment can have on our being:
the artist obliges us to compromises within that space and then
questions us about our relationship with the space in general.
For Alterational, Hendee has created an environment of geometric
self-contained objects, lit internally with saturated colored light.
Silhouettes of interchanging modular sculptures, which are the base of
the artist’s virtual realities, but they are singularly able to interact with
one another in the space.
In conjunction with Alterational, the artist will show his drawings,
-BI-dimensional- transpositions of atmospheres.
Hendee’s show will also be the occasion of the opening of a new
artistic space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the community is
assuming an important position in the world of contemporary art.
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art 212 Berry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
T: 718 599-0844 or 212 987-6177 F: 212 987-6182
Opening Reception: Friday, October 19, 2001 6-9 pm
Gallery hours: Thursday - Monday 12 - 6pm or By Appointment