Jonathan Callan
dal 7/9/2000 al 14/10/2000
Segnalato da
7/9/2000
Jonathan Callan
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Books, photographs, small sculptures, and a large-scale dust cement installation. Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in New York of London artist Jonathan Callan.
Books, photographs, small sculptures, and a large-scale dust cement installation.
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition
in New York of London artist Jonathan Callan.
Though Jonathan Callan's use of subjects and materials are many and
varied they are united by process and duration; the pieces are
meticulous and precise, displaying characteristics that seem more the
result of organic processes. The books he presents seem infected,
their covers and pages erupting as though eaten or attacked by fungal
growth.
On closer inspection one sees that these eruptions are the result of
patient destruction forcing maps, point by point, into and through the
covers. Books are vials of information and authority, as well as objects.
It is the relationship of disembodied knowledge to embodied
experience and materiality that Callan is interested in.
In a floor-based installation 8 feet by 8 feet, Callan exploits the
characteristic that the physicist Per Bak calls, 'self-organized
criticality,' where white cement powder is carefully sieved over a
prearranged bi-symmetrical template. The resulting 'dustscape' is a
function of a kind of ordered disorder resembling both the design of a
Persian carpet and the peaks and valleys of an Alpine landscape.
Jonathan Callan has recently shown at the Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston,
as well as at Hales Gallery in London, where he lives and works.
Opening reception on Friday, September 8, 6-8 pm
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery 526 West 26th Street, Room 213 NY, NY
10001
T 212.243.3335 F 212.243 1059