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Gladstone Gallery 530 West 21st Street: "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha" - 22 June 2012 to 3 Aug 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Susumu Koshimizu, Paper (formerly Paper 2), 1969/2012
Hempen paper and granite Paper: 108 x 108 inches Stone: 22 1/2 x 64 1/2 x 64 inches |
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"Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha" Curated by Mika Yoshitake 530 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 June 22 - August 3, 2012 Opening June 21, 6 - 8 pm Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha," organized in collaboration with Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. This exhibition examines the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon Mono-ha (School of Things). Representing a key art historical turning point, “Requiem for the Sun" refers to the death of the sun as emblematic of the loss of symbolic expression and permanence immanent to the object in Japanese postwar art practice. Included in the exhibition are works by Koji Enokura (1942-1995), Susumu Koshimizu (1944- ), Nobuo Sekine (1942- ), Kishio Suga (1944- ), Jiro Takamatsu (1936-1998), Noboru Takayama (1944- ), Lee Ufan (1936- ), and Katsuro Yoshida (1943-1999). Mono-ha's primary tenet explores the encounter between natural and industrial objects, such as glass, stones, steel plates, wood, cotton, light bulbs, leather, oil, wire and Japanese paper, in and of themselves arranged directly on the floor or in an outdoor field. Evident in their works is a tendency based not on the art historical recuperation of objects, but on maintaining an affective relationship between works and our surrounding environment. That is, the works operate as a process of perceiving a perpetually passing present that opens the materiality of the work beyond what is simply seen. These practices are linked to the cultural milieu of process and post-minimalist art apparent on an international level during the 1960s and 1970s. What distinguishes their work is the refined technique of repetition as a studied production of difference developed over time in each artist's practice. The exhibition will show select key installations, works on paper, and photographs that reveal resonant concepts and artistic methods fundamental to the movement. Some themes include perceiving works as actions or events, experiments in topology and spatial continuity, visceral materiality, and the contingency of the body. While the art of Mono-ha has been the subject of exhibitions in Asia and Europe, it is virtually unknown in North America. "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha" will provide a critical introduction to this extremely significant work. A 244-page catalog will be published in conjunction with "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha," which will include an essay with new scholarship by Mika Yoshitake, translations of artists' texts, a chronology of historical exhibitions with accompanying rare installation photographs, and new photography of the works. For further information, please contact Abby Margulies +1 212 206 9300 or [email protected] New York Gallery hours beginning June 18: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm Brussels gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 6pm, Saturday, 12pm – 6pm |
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