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
About:
I have a history of expressing my work through different forms of presentation, but I would classify all of it as in intimation with objects, or sculpture. Over the past few decades, I have brought the physical, aesthetic, and spatial sensitivity of sculpture to my collages, images, and installations. This fusion, for me, generates a type of material mysticism, where the combined acts of sensory experience through texture, mass, form, color, and scale create an almost hallucinatory state of metaphysical non-duality. Inspiration can come from one of several places: from everyday discoveries on the street, to a prolonged relationship with people and objects, from current theories of consciousness, to ancient history, or even the feeling of embodied disassociation one gets from staring at things move in color, shape, or in space. My hope is that through my work, I might touch on the nerve that makes distinction between things that are ordinary vs. those exalted—embracing everything as potentially sublime.
My work and ideas have been largely influenced by the possible worlds found in Modal Realism & panpsychism, the ethics of humanism, as well as the vital agency and social ecologies expressed through Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter. I am also an avid researcher and practioner of traditional European, Near-Eastern, and Meditteranean forms of mysticism. I am the founder and writer for the online journal Artpyre.
Contact:
please address all inquiries to: klaus@klausgallery.com
