January 14 – February 25, 2012 Opening reception: 6-8 pm
URI ARAN by foot, by car, by bus
January 14 – February 25, 2012 Opening reception: 6-9 pm
UDOMSAK KRISANAMIS SPACE OUT Gavin Brown’s enterprise announces Space Out an exhibition by Thai artist Udomsak Krisanamis featuring selected works from Krisanamis’s 2011 solo-exhibition at the Kunstverein Freiburg, ‘A Mindful Mission’
Over the last two decades Krisanamis’s practice has been characterized by his use of collage incorporating newspaper, noodles, cellophane, and paint to form highly built-up reticulated surfaces
Presented in Space Out is a recent series of paintings that are composed of densely layered acrylic applied vertically with occasional white lines breaking horizontally across. The large elegant surfaces of the works are revealed up close to be rutted and grooved - the evidence of Krisanamis’s obsessive and labor-intensive painting process. Paired with the paintings is a group of collages dripped and splattered with splices of text affixed to the surface, and a scattered pack of upended golf tees - from Chiang Mai to St. Andrews and back again.
Krisanamis was born in 1966 in Bangkok and studied at Chulaongkorn University, Bangkok and the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2011); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2003); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2000) and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1999) and shows at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Victoria Miro, London, and Massimo de Carlo, Milan. His work has also been included in several significant group exhibitions including Imagine Peace, Bangkok Art And Culture Center, Bangkok (2010); Back to Black, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2008); Infinite Painting, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2003); Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (2001) Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1999); Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, (1998); and Project 63, MoMA, (1998).
URI ARAN by foot, by car, by bus
1: knock knock 2: who's there? 1: control freak. Now you say “control freak who?”
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. John Scott Haldane
New worlds require new maps.
New worlds require not just new maps, but new ways of making those maps.
New ways of thinking about the nature and function of our social and metaphysical landscapes, because the standard means of description are no longer up to the task.
Uri Aran traces the invisible world about and within us. The topographic schema he creates are formed from atomic elements of overlooked and overworked realities. When found and observed and classified and arranged and shaped by Aran, these particles reveal themselves to be citizens of worlds that crowd our commonplace dreams and fears.
The contents of our hierarchies and our logics are shaken, rattled then rolled onto the field of our perception. We discover new disparate tribes, who share common wordless languages fresh to their tongues - alienation, magic and time counted in breaths.
Aran manipulates the constituent parts with shuffles, folds and stutters, so that new allegiances and coalitions are formed within his tabletop cities, clearing paths through the forest of consciousness with a slash and burn that is one part abandon, one part passion, and two parts control. Objects swap clothes and hopes and orientations, each new identity replacing an old one. This process of substitution allows new ways of seeing to emerge spontaneously from the spaces that lie between each, between them and us, and that lie between me, myself and I.
Gavin Brown’s enterprise 620 Greenwich Street, New York 212 627 5258 T – Sa, 10AM – 6PM
