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Glenn Kaino: Safe / Vanish at LAXART, Los Angeles

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Channel: VernissageTV · 2010 · Entertainment

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http://www.vernissage.tv | This year, the independent nonprofit art space LAXART in Los Angeles celebrates its 5th Anniversary. In these five years, LAXART has produced and commissioned over 100 projects.

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One of them is the current show, a solo exhibition with works by Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino. For the show, titled Safe / Vanish, Glenn Kaino produced new pieces that deal with art and magic. "Immersing himself in the study of magic over the past two years, Kaino's inquiry unveils the restructuring of the social contract between art and audience, generating new conceptual strategies that bridge contemporary systems of art production and exhibition with the mythical and mysterious dimensions of magic. For Kaino, this interdisciplinary process unveils new potentialities of conceptualism in contemporary art—providing new structures of analysis that function from the point of contact between criticality and wonder." (Excerpt from the press release).

According to the gallery, the exhibition Safe / Vanish marks a significant shift in the trajectory of Kaino's practice and encompasses a new dimension of his considerations of the role of the artist in our current landscape of contemporary art. This exhibition runs until the 30th October 2010 and is accompanied by an upcoming publication that will feature newly commissioned essays as well as documentation of this phase of Kaino's ongoing project.

Glenn Kaino received a BFA from UC Irvine and an MFA from UC San Diego; he currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Kaino's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at various institutions. He has had solo exhibitions at museums and galleries such as the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; ArtPace, San Antonio; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA;  the Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria, New York, NY; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA;  and The Project, New York, NY.

Glenn Kaino: Safe / Vanish at LAXART Los Angeles, September 23, 2010.

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