Invasionen/Invasions opened at Galerie Carolyn Heinz this past Friday 2 December. The show was curated by (the oft mentioned) Reinhold Engberding (video here), and includes the piece above (entitled 40 x 29 Extensions and Annexes) by your's truly. If anyone happens to be in Hamburg during December, please go. I promise the rest of the work is much more interesting than this.
The following is my short text accompanying the piece at the show:
40 x 29 Extensions and Annexes takes the given dimensions of the original linoleum block and then invades the space around it, colonizing, parcel by parcel, the walls of the gallery. In form the piece pays homage to the Bichos of Lygia Clark as well as the Relevos Espaciais of Helio Oiticica. Its materials are rooted in the specificities of the North American biota as well as the vagaries of international trade and supply chains: Yucca, Agave, and palm leaves provide the fibers for the paper, and black walnut, pecan, southern live oak, blueberry, and Mexican axiote tint its surfaces; while the gesso is "made in USA" probably from titanium dioxide extracted from the sands of Australian beaches, and the carbon black is made from the dirty and incomplete combustion of anonymous petroleum in an anonymous factory anywhere in the world, and then affixed with the moniker "India".The only material I regret not mentioning is yellow ocher from Dixon Branch Creek near our house.
hey mr larsen its me jennifer rivera your old student from aboun two years ago and i am really exited because ive already auditioned to booker t washingtonand i really hope i can make like you always told me i could
ReplyDeleteJenny, I'm thrilled for you! I wish you the very best and hope you make it in. you certainly belong there.
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