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Fill You With Holes - EXTRA CONTENT Lygia Clark

Nate Lowman

日期
24.03.2010 | 15.05.2010
画廊
London
New exhibition by cult American artist Nate Lowman dealing with the dark side of the American dream, showing alongside Lowman are works from late sixties by Lygia Clark. Carlson gallery is delighted to present Fill you with Holes, a new exhibition by the American artist Nate Lowman. The show investigates Lowman’s unique critique of culture and the irony of the subjective images we surround ourselves with. For his first show at the gallery, Nate Lowman engages with the issues of the circle – from the iconography of smiley faces that the artist recently rendered in an in depth exploration, to the subversion of the circle: the shrapnel from the Una-Bomber explosion as shaped canvases. The circle is at the center of a game featured in the exhibition - a horseshoe toss set up in the center of the gallery inspiring the viewer to enter and immediately engage with it (don’t throw one, it might hit a Lygia Clark). The other gaming tropes are 4 gaudy bean bag throw planks (once again a circle) that intercept the more stylized works. And lastly, the circle, as Lowman points out, has a right wing political agenda exemplified by smiling girls wearing Adolf Hitler tee shirts or the painting of a Supreme Court judge scrutinizing the infamous ballots of the 1999 election. The centerpiece of the exhibition is ‘Fucking Posers’, a large scale multi panel painting depicting images of people in shackles with a funny ‘aside’ represented by a Policeman with a pile of doughnuts. The ‘schacklers’ are all posed with smiles on their faces, and the policeman is absolutely jolly. Acting as a sharp contrast to their smiley faces, the gas pump side panels remind us of the gas crisis that gripped the USA as well as of the global collapse of the economy. Acting as extra content for this exhibition, are four canvases by Lygia Clark from the 50’s. Throughout the exhibition, Clark’s canvases punctuate Lowman’s work formally. The show opens with the dialogue between Lowman’s signature, ‘bullet hole’ (Escalade, 2010) and the 1958 Lygia Clark painting, ‘Planos em Superficie Modulada n°2’. Whilst Clarke’s painting uses form and shape to explore a possible reality of space, the bullet hole canvas attempts to open up the central hole
Nate Lowman

内特·洛曼1979年生于美国内华达州拉斯维加斯,目前工作居住在美国纽约。


纽约艺术家内特·洛曼的作品关注艺术和社会中权力、美与暴力的结合。不同主题总是嵌入到与媒介紧密联系的关系中,包括精妙的技术,例如模仿丝网的点画,以及形状复杂的手工拉伸画布。他的创作跨越绘画、印刷,和雕塑,通过挪用并重置预先存在的图像,创造出具有象征意义的作品,反映了许多当代问题,例如大众消费主义、名人流行文化与暴力。


内特·洛曼的作品被众多机构收藏,包括:奥尔布赖特·诺克斯艺术馆,纽约;阿斯楚普费恩利现代艺术博物馆,奥斯陆;蓬皮杜艺术中心,巴黎;马西亚诺艺术基金会,洛杉矶;大都会艺术博物馆,纽约;斯德哥尔摩当代美术馆,斯德哥尔摩;纽约现代艺术博物馆,纽约;古根海姆博物馆,纽约;惠特尼美国艺术博物馆,纽约。

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