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DNA:Orange:Work

McArthur Binion

日期
09.03.2021 | 27.03.2021
画廊
Pièce Unique
文件
PRESS RELEASE

MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique is pleased to present DNA:Orange:Work, McArthur Binion’s first solo project in Paris. This large scale abstract paper work on wood, from his 2020 DNA:Work series, investigates the nature and limits of the minimalist grid to construct a profoundly personal narrative.

The work’s geometric pattern is blended with paper fragments from the artist’s phone book and other personal documents, arranged rhythmically on the board. The composition that emerges from the layering of the paper’s grids with the grid created by the oil paint stick, both amplifies and negates the grid, offering a reflection on the definition of minimalism, which can be highly personal, and misleadingly simple.

Since the 1970’s, McArthur Binion has sought to challenge the very nature of minimalism, and has done so through his personal philosophy, merging the pictorial grid with archival belongings such as personal family photographs, phone books or found documents from the history of the Afro-American community.

Binion’s reduced combination of colors and forms exudes formal mastery, and carries multiple layers of meaning- beginning with his search for the legacy of modernist abstract painting in relation to the wider context of human society needing to leave traces of itself behind, and the impulse to project itself towards the future.

McArthur Binion’s work is resolutely political albeit subtle. Curator Lowery Stokes Sims described Binion’s DNA series as addressing ‘notions of self-awareness and self-discovery, a conscious reflection on himself and on the historical discourse he has contributed to’.

McArthur Binion

麦克阿瑟·比尼恩1946年生于美国密西西比州梅肯,目前工作生活于伊利诺伊州芝加哥。


自上世纪七十年代以来,麦克阿瑟·比尼恩的作品融合图像网格与档案物品,例如电话簿、家庭照片、或是在美国黑人社区历史中发现的文件,他始终在寻找一种极简主义的替代。从他对广泛背景下现代主义抽象绘画遗产的探索开始,即人类社会需要在留下存在痕迹的同时投射未来,比尼恩作品中颜色组合和形状的减少,不仅体现出其对形式的成熟运用,更包含多层次的意义。


比尼恩的作品具有微妙却强烈的政治色彩。策展人洛维里·斯托克斯·西姆斯(LOWERY STOKES SIMS) 曾将其DNA系列描述为“关于自我意识与自我探索的概念,以及对艺术家自己和他所贡献的历史进程的刻意反思”。 过去的四十年,麦克阿瑟·比尼恩不断探索抽象绘画的可能性。艺术家独特叙事与个人回忆的介入,以及他对内容的强调,使其作品区别于传统的极简主义艺术实践。比尼恩的作品曾被列入第57届威尼斯双年展,《VIVA ARTE VIVA》,由CHRISTINE MACEL策展。


其作品被众多私人及公共机构收藏,包括:纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆;纽约哈莱姆工作室博物馆;旧金山现代艺术博物馆;纽约大都会艺术博物馆;华盛顿国立非裔美国人历史文化博物馆;克兰布鲁克艺术博物馆;底特律艺术馆;波士顿当代艺术研究所;堪萨斯城坎伯当代艺术博物馆;杰克逊市密西西比艺术博物馆;新奥尔良艺术博物馆;圣达非 STRAUSS FAMILY COLLECTION;托莱多艺术博物馆。

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