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MIKE WEISS GALLERY - Group Show

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2016 · Entertainment

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Artist: Liao Yibal, Cameron Gray, Michael Brown, Adam Parker Smith, Michael Zelehoski,
Exhibition Title: Objects and Everyday Goods
Exhibition Dates: Feb 4 - Mar 26, 2016
Gallery Link:  http://www.mikeweissgallery.com/exhibition/97/#!2608Video 
Link: https://youtu.be/AG-cqmhDYFg
While the work in the show may, in one way or another, elicit a conceptual relationship to the traditions of Objet Trouvé and Arte Povera, it would be far too narrow and cliché to fetter them within historical precedence. Rather than march along these well trodden paths – paved by humble materials and Duchampian readymades – that now only serve to refine the art-object binary, the show instead opens new possibilities for convergence. It weaves a fresh, multifaceted dialogue that – in many (varying) modes – fuses the straightforward with the unfamiliar.  The result is a relational quandary, the lineage of which is locked into a helix of indivisibility much like a contemplation of the “chicken-or-the-egg”: Is it the familiar that becomes the peculiar, or the unfamiliar that becomes recognizable? Some works achieve this delicate marriage through an aesthetic elevation of everyday materials; others through a representational depiction of the commonplace; still others through a combination of the two ­– an implicit and explicit unification of artistic and standardized modes of production.  But whatever the methodology, the core ideology remains the same – the everyday as art and art as the everyday. For what is a work of art if not, first and foremost, an object – a thing – that has been made and to which we apply/from which we derive abstract ideas?


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