Mind the Gap

A group exhibition featuring Dennis Adams, Joseph Beuys, Fernando Bryce, Heide Fasnacht, Charles Gaines, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar, Mark Lombardi, Muntadas, & Walid Raad

January 5 – February 25, 2012

Muntadas

Warning, 2006

Piezo inkjet fine art print on Fotopapier, printed on an Epson 9800 with K-8 inks

27 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.

No. 12 from an edition of 12

Richard Hamilton

Kent State, 1970

Screenprint from 13 stencils on Schoeller Durer paper

26 1/2 x 34 1/4 in.

No. 3313 from an edition of 5000

Heide Fasnacht

London Blitz III, 2010

Mixed media

60 x 90 in.

Dennis Adams

Vanity for MAKE DOWN II, 2005-2007

Aluminum, incandescent light fixtures, LCD screen and DVD player

Single channel video, 23 minutes, continuous loop

Edition of 5

30 x 40 x 8 in.

Dennis Adams

Lullaby, 2004

Vinyl record weighted with steel plate to retard the speed of a turntable

30 x x40 x 8 in.

AP I/II of an Edition of 10

Charles Gaines

String Theory: Rewriting Bataille #9, 2011

Graphite on paper

76 x 55 in.

Each of the works in MIND THE GAP operates between and within signs in order to discover, tease out, and make manifest meaning that is neither obvious nor orthodox. The artists presented here respond to our world with particular intelligence and sensitivity to these gaps. It is in their natures to be radical, and each questions and provokes in their own way.

DENNIS ADAMS, JOSEPH BEUYS, FERNANDO BRYCE, HEIDE FASNACHT, CHARLES GAINES, HANS HAACKE, RICHARD HAMILTON, ALFREDO JAAAR, MARK LOMBARDI, ANTONI MUNTADAS, & WALID RAAD

The title and spirit of the exhibition take their cue from Lise Patt's description of W.G. Sebald:

If there is a Sebaldian method, in Austerlitz we are given its opening line: "mind the gap" between words, between and in images and text, but most significantly, mind the gaps in (not only between) signs. Look at the spaces between seeing and not seeing (where you'll catch a glimpse of "the phantom traces created by the sluggish eye"). Notice the gaps between cards being dealt of pages of a book flipping by. Don't turn away from the visual magma, after-images that "leak" out from their moving sides. Pay attention to the momentary arrest of language required by a period, a comma, an "aside." Don't ignore the "whispered" secrets of the last spoken syllable hanging in the air, or the last written word of a paragraph stranded on its own line. Study those photographs created in slips of the shutter or captured in concert with bodily sighs. These are the gaps that open the way to the production of thought itself, to awaking, not anesthetizing, the creative mind.

EXHIBITION RELATED PRESS

"Mind the Gap"

Brooklyn Rail | February 1, 2012 | Anne Sherwood Pundyk