“Located at the overpopulated intersection of collage and assemblage — this work avoids many of the current clichés. Everything is used sparely and with a geometric sense of structure; details stand out and include drawing, applications of color and little touches that may or may not be accidental. All is revealed. Thought and physical precision foment a kind of resurrection.”
–Roberta Smith, The New York Times
“The artifacts and images…suggest a quietly experimental, performative approach to object making. The results…have an intimation of ritual. In both prints and sculptures, the density that results from this compulsive process of addition only emphasizes the fragility of each component part, and the value of giving the smallest moment our fullest attention.”
–Michael Wilson, Artforum
“While the works in this exhibition were visually and intellectually engaging, they were, at the same time, what we’d expect from an artist who invariably delivers the unexpected in his mastery of gathering and arranging disparate objects.”
–Maximilíano Durón, Artnews
The work exists as images, objects, and installations. All of it is rooted in sculpture: where physical, spatial, and aesthetic realities of objects extend into the place where visceral experience and the operative imagination collide.
The object is something taken on and worn like a garment over our existing accoutrements. A tangible image that is possessed but not immediately exausted by its use. Through its materiality, scale, and presence in space, the potent agency of the object dwells in the fabric of the senses, equally present as texture, shape, color, and dimension until the physical and perceptual overtake each other. At this moment, the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘it’ gives way. What appears as separate resolves into something singular.
At a certain proximity, the distance between the seer and the seen no longer holds.
Ideas in the work stem from things intuited, like seeing cracks of light appear in the dark. The act of making is sitting in this darkness and waiting for the eyes to get adjusted to see the whole picture.
Contact:
please address all inquiries to: klaus@klausgallery.com