‘Kimsooja: Meta-Painting’ is on view in NY through June 14th!
‘To Breathe’ wraps the gallery space in various forms of light, offering a transformative experience and a meditation on painting that embodies the artist’s enduring interest in the dualism of life and art.
As light enters through the gallery’s windows, it becomes refracted by a special film that transforms the natural light into iridescent landscapes that change throughout the day. In the main exhibition space, a mirrored platform folds the architecture of the gallery and offers the viewer a chance to engage more deeply with the surroundings, giving them space for reflection and contemplation. In the center of the platform, light is projected from above, creating a floating tableau of color which slowly progresses through the visible spectrum. By painting with light, Kimsooja expands the traditional notion of painting, transforming the surface into an ever-changing color field.
Video by Lance Brewer and Dan Swindel @dans_windel
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Happy Birthday, Kimsooja!
The artist’s solo exhibition, ‘Meta-Painting,’ is on view through June 14th at our NY gallery.
Kimsooja’s sculptural wrapped painting ‘Deductive Object’ suggests a totality that alludes to birth and death. The ovoid shape was inspired by the Brahmanda stone (“cosmic egg”) which in Indian mythology is believed to stand at the origin of creation. Conceptualized as a painting that does not reveal its surface, the deep black absorbs ambient light so the mirrored surface below enfolds the physical space around it.
Video by Lance Brewer and Dan Swindel @dans_windel
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Come visit Kimsooja’s exhibition at our NY gallery!
The main installation - “To Breathe” - offers a mediation on painting. Featuring a mirrored platform which folds the architecture of the gallery, viewers are invited to walk on the reflective surface and experience the floating tableau of color situated in the center of the platform. The visitor becomes the metaphorical needle, their image penetrating the surface of the mirrored platform as they move across its surface. Image and object, the self and the other, reality and the virtual are all explored as the visitor engages with the work.
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Video by Lance Brewer and Dan Swindel @dans_windel
The gallery in LA is open late today and tomorrow (open until 7pm)! Come visit us to see Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition, “Live(s) on Air”
1010 N Highland Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Open until 7pm on 2/27 and 2/28
@studiotomassaraceno
#tomassaraceno #tanyabonakdargallery #frieze #friezeartfair #friezelosangeles
Thanks to a resounding response, ‘Jónsi: Vox’ is has been extended at TBGLA through February 10th, 2024!
Interdisciplinary artist and musician Jónsi grounds his visual practice in material and metaphysical experimentations with sound, often through the engineering of immersive installations that reconfigure the act of listening by means of sight, smell, taste, and touch.
In the front gallery space, a blanket of speakers is suspended in the air, under which viewers can walk and become enveloped in ASMR-like sounds. Titled ‘Var,’ the Icelandic word for shelter, the installation creates a momentary respite from the outside world. The canopy-like space is combined with calming sounds and the scent of cis-3-hexenol, one of the main components in freshly cut grass. Drawing inspiration from the term “safe space”, which originated in LGBTQ+ culture, Var evokes a sense of tranquility and is a place to seek shelter.
Video by Walker Sayan (Tin Dragon Media)
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Sandra Cinto painting “May I Know How to be the Sun on Cloudy Days”. Come visit her solo exhibition at the gallery in NY! Open now through February 10th.
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Last day to see Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition at the gallery in NY!
Throughout history, songs and poetry have been used as powerful critique against systems of control or as uplifting carriers of hope in times of struggle. Transcending borders, the variation of voices and languages in ‘Listening Air’ create a collective sense of resilience. A song sung by the women rice weeders of the Po Valley in Italy in the 1940’s, to the farmers sit down protest in New Delhi in 2020; a folk and labor song which journeyed through the tobacco farm workers in Charleston, South Carolina, onto the streets during the civil rights movement, further onto North Korea, Beirut, Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and beyond echo throughout the space.
Video by Lance Brewer and Dan Swindell
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‘Sarah Sze: Metronome’ is on view at the Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station through September 17, 2023!
Watch this interview to see Sze discuss the shifting ways visitors can experience ‘Metronome.’
The full interview was filmed by @father_of_dawdlers at The Waiting Room, and is available exclusively on @bloombergconnects. Visit the link in our bio to access the video, exhibition guides and more on the free app.
@sarahszestudio #sarahsze #tanyabonakdargallery
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles is open with extended hours this evening, Friday, July 28, from 6-8 pm.
Come by and see Slavs and Tatars ‘Hang Don’t Cut’
Laura Lima’s ‘Balé Literal’ is on view @macba_barcelona through September 25th!
Laura Lima presented the original version of ‘Balé Literal’ for the first time in 2019 in Rio de Janeiro. It was a large installation made of objects, machinery, paintings, and various artifacts that danced around the public space in a choreographic movement, a peripatetic dance of the absurd, orchestrated by a rudimentary mechanism and driven by the energy of various people under the artist’s direction. Extremely simple, yet greatly effective, the installation appeared as a kind of living organism composed of all sorts of objects and people endlessly moving around in a perfect image of our changing times.
Four years after that experience, ‘Balé Literal’ is installed for the first time in a museum at MACBA. The objects and paintings hanging from threads were produced especially for the occasion, while also acting as reminders of other works by the artist. Lima creates an unusually choreographed retrospective exhibition in continuous movement.
‘Balé Literal’ will be accompanied by a publication including essays by philosophers, writers, and other artists. The book will be published after the exhibition’s opening, so it can incorporate a photographic record of the work installed at MACBA.
@lauralima.art #lauralima #macba #tanyabonakdargallery
Laura Lima’s ‘Balé Literal’ is on view @macba_barcelona through September 25th!
Laura Lima presented the original version of ‘Balé Literal’ for the first time in 2019 in Rio de Janeiro. It was a large installation made of objects, machinery, paintings, and various artifacts that danced around the public space in a choreographic movement, a peripatetic dance of the absurd, orchestrated by a rudimentary mechanism and driven by the energy of various people under the artist’s direction. Extremely simple, yet greatly effective, the installation appeared as a kind of living organism composed of all sorts of objects and people endlessly moving around in a perfect image of our changing times.
Four years after that experience, ‘Balé Literal’ is installed for the first time in a museum at MACBA. The objects and paintings hanging from threads were produced especially for the occasion, while also acting as reminders of other works by the artist. Lima creates an unusually choreographed retrospective exhibition in continuous movement.
‘Balé Literal’ will be accompanied by a publication including essays by philosophers, writers, and other artists. The book will be published after the exhibition’s opening, so it can incorporate a photographic record of the work installed at MACBA.
@lauralima.art #lauralima #macba #tanyabonakdargallery
Art Basel opens today to VIPs! Come visit us at booth P9!
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