El Hanani and Claerbout
dal 27/4/2000 al 27/5/2000
Segnalato da
27/4/2000
El Hanani and Claerbout
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Jacob El Hanani: drawings - David Claerbout: video installation
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present a show of recent work
by Jacob El Hanani and David Claerbout.
Jacob El Hanani's drawings carefully balance close attention to detail
and the serene shimmer of their resulting surfaces. A motif central to a
particular work or series is repeated in ink over the surface of the
paper, thousands of times, in a process consuming months or even
years. Time becomes a tangible element in each drawing as its history
is traced in the progress of the marks and crystallized when the
drawing is complete.
El Hanani constructs his works with marks drawn from multiple
sources: the weave of baskets, the technique of cross-hatching,
fabrics, the Hebrew alphabet, El Hanani's own name. Since the 1970's,
his interest in what he calls "the global phenomenon of
micro-reduction" has also strongly influenced his process, with
corresponding resonance in his allover micro-drawings.
Jacob El Hanani's work has been widely exhibited in the United States
and Europe and is part of many private collections and museums,
including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of
Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, the Fogg Art Museum and The
Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives and works in New York City.
In his first exhibition in the United States, Belgian video artist David
Claerbout continues to blur the lines between photography and video,
documentary and simulation. His installations embody a paradox
Christoph Doswald has termed "frozen time:" because movement within
the images is extremely subtle, a viewer's sense of expectancy often
remains unresolved. Instead, questions arise which Claerbout
purposefully leaves unanswered: what is the source of the image and
its motion; has the image been slowed, digitally animated, or is this
'reality?'
"In David Claerbout's work, photographs are so many documents
scattered over time and on which the painter changes shadows using
his graphics palette, adds a wall, adjusts the position of an object or
figure. Then, using digital techniques, he animates certain elements,
making the leaves move on a tree fossilized in an old photograph or
lighting the torches in the hands of the protagonists of an old group
portrait." -Cyril Jarton, catalogue essay from TroubleSpot. Painting
David Claerbout's work was exhibited most recently at Le Grand Hornu
Mons and at La Monnaie in Belgium, in a show entitled 'L'Opéra, un
chant d'étoiles.' His work was also shown during 1999 at S.M.A.K. in
Ghent and in an exhibition organized by Luc Tuymans and Narcisse
Tordor in Antwerp, TroubleSpot. Painting.
Opening reception: Friday April 28, 6 - 8 pm
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery 526 West 26th Street New York
For more information, please call the gallery at 212.243.3335