3 Mar 2011 to 2 Apr 2011
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Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 Tenth Avenue at 27th Street
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Iván Navarro, Surrender (Flatiron), 2011 neon, mirror, one way mirror, wood, paint and electric energy 23 x 46 x 6 inches, 58.4 x 116.8 x 15.3 cm
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Chilean artist Iván Navarro. Heaven or Las Vegas, featuring fluorescent light sculptures drawn from the floor plans of iconic skyscrapers, will be on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from March 3 to April 2, 2011.
For Heaven or Las Vegas, Navarro’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist has created a series of fluorescent light wall sculptures based on the floor plans of twelve of the world’s most well known skyscrapers, including the Flatiron Building in New York, the Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai and The Center in Hong Kong. These monumental buildings were chosen for the ambitious innovations in design and engineering that were required to construct them and for their importance to the historical spread of Western-style development across the globe. Through a positioned play of mirrors and lights, viewers have the experience of looking up into the interior elevation of each building, many of which tower more than 1,000 feet high in actuality. Within each work, Navarro has incorporated significant words or phrases like SURRENDER, RESIST, and YOU SAY YES, which ech o like suggestions or commands through each structure’s illusory depth.
Iván Navarro was born in Santiago, Chile and is known internationally for his socio-politically charged sculptures of fluorescent and incandescent light. Recent solo exhibitions include Nowhere Man, Contemporary Art Center, Towner, UK (2009), Threshold, Chilean Pavilion, Aresnal, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), and Backstage, Greenway Gallery-Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Australia (2008). His work is held in the public and private collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), LVMH Collection (Paris), Saatchi Collection (London), Martin Z. Margulies Warehouse (Miami, FL), and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). Iván Navarro currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864
March 3 - April 2, 2011
at 511 w. 27th Street
Paul Kasmin Gallery, in cooperation with Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, is pleased to announce Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864. Including works by pioneering photographers William Henry Fox Talbot, Chares Nčgre, Dr. John Murray, Frédéric Flachéron and Louis-Rémy Robert, the exhibition will provide a rare glimpse into the early history of photography. It will be on view from March 3rd to April 2nd at Paul Kasmin’s 511 W. 27th Street space.
Discovered in 1840, Talbot’s calotype process created negative images on paper sensitized with silver salts. Because these negatives captured light directly, Talbot prized them above all else for their great fidelity to nature. Moreover, unlike the daguerreotype, which produced only one image, multiple prints could be made from a single paper negative. As one 19th century commentator noted, paper negatives produced prints that were “richer, softer, more aerial, and deeper, in short, more artistic” than those made on metal or from glass negatives. Drawing with Light will present rarely exhibited pairs of negatives and prints, as well as hand-painted and retouched negatives that evidence the emerging process of making images.
Taken throughout Europe and in India and Tibet, these photographs adhere to that century’s aesthetic preference for scenes of antiquity, and range from portraits and rustic landscapes to architectural studies of ruins and bird’s-eye views of foreign skylines. Not merely technological predecessors to later photographic processes, the composition and framing of these paper negatives are highlighted by their striking reverse tonality, making them dramatic and beautiful objects in their own right.
For more information, please contact Nick Olney: nick@paulkasmingallery.com. For image and press requests, please contact Mark Markin: mark@paulkasmingallery.com.
