The Exquisite Object
dal 23/1/2003 al 1/3/2003
Segnalato da
23/1/2003
The Exquisite Object
Lucas Schoormans, New York
Lucas Schoormans is pleased to announce The Exquisite Object, an exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama, Gordon Matta-Clark, John McCracken, Richard Serra, and Luc Tuymans. The works for this exhibition were chosen for their formal subtleness and quietude beneath which lies a complexity and richness of meaning.
Lucas Schoormans is pleased to announce The Exquisite Object, an exhibition of
works by Yayoi Kusama, Gordon Matta-Clark, John McCracken, Richard Serra, and
Luc Tuymans.
The works for this exhibition were chosen for their formal subtleness and
quietude beneath which lies a complexity and richness of meaning.
Serra's drawing Onto the Corner exemplifies this approach: two small steel
plates are covered with paintstick and placed onto a protruding corner.
Moderate and condensed in scale and medium, this work immediately extends its
grasp onto the entire architecture that surrounds it and claims a physical
presence usually associated with the artist's well-known large sculptures. The
drawing itself ceases to be a drawing, turns into an object of weight, mass
and volume, which consequently turns the space that contains it into a
structure with all formal qualities of a sculpture.
Similar transformations, from formal subtleness to complexity in meaning, are
evident in all the works exhibited. Kusama explores process and obsessiveness,
Matta-Clark the process and measure of disorder, McCracken pure color and
reductive geometric form, Tuymans chromatic nuance and literal contents. Each
work contains a multitude of the principal aspects each artist is dealing
with; in that sense, the individual piece contains the totality of the
artist's oeuvre, or, in other words, exists as an exquisite object.
Image: Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting: Four Corners, 1974
The opening will take place on Tuesday, January 28 from 6 to 8 pm.
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.
Lucas Schoormans
508 West 26th Street, 11B New York, New York 10001 USA
Tel : (212) 243-3159
Fax: (212) 243-5069