Tag: movement

Daniel Rozin at Bitforms

Ceramic fragments resembling cracked mud ripple like water in response to visitors’ movements at Bitforms on the Lower East Side, creating a surprising and delightful effect, despite the worrying allusion to a parched environment. Part of Rozin’s new series of mechanical mirrors – interactive artworks that respond via motion sensor to a visitor’s movements which Rozin has created since the late 90s – the new mirrors inhabit a darkened gallery, creating a theatrical feeling that heightens the senses. (On view through March 17th).

Daniel Rozin, Cracked Mud, ceramic fragments, custom software, motors, control electronics, motion sensors, light fixture, 4 x 132 x 132 inches, 2019.

Yun-Fei Ji at James Cohan Gallery

Amid lush landscapes, bundles of household goods and furniture await removal in Yun-Fei Ji’s watercolor paintings of rural China.  As the government relocates huge numbers of country-dwellers to urban areas, the artist zeros in on individuals and their belongings in the process of being uprooted.  (On view at James Cohan Gallery’s Lower East Side location through June 16th).

Yun-Fei Ji, detail of The Family Belongings, watercolor and ink on Yuan paper mounted on silk, 15 ½ x 26 ¼ (unframed), 2011.

Benjamin Degen at Susan Inglett Gallery

Naked feet running along the shore at night in this painting by Benjamin Degen at Susan Inglett Gallery could belong to cavorting friends or fleeing migrants.  The lack of distinction is the point; Degen created his latest paintings “…in celebration of human movement” and in favor of choosing liberation over self-destruction.  (On view in Chelsea through March 10th).

Benjamin Degen, Night Move, oil and spray enamel on canvas, 60 x 84 inches, 2018.

Mark di Suvero at Paula Cooper Gallery

“And yet it moves” is the translated titled of this new monumental steel sculpture by Mark di Suvero, referring to Galileo’s 17th century assertion (despite pressure from the Inquisition) that the earth is not stable. Likewise, this formidably weighty sculpture looks fixed but will rock on its axis if set in motion. (On view at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea through Feb 3rd.)

Mark di Suvero, Eppur si Muove, stainless steel, 10.5 x 28 x 12 feet, 2017 – 2017.

 

 

Willy Le Maitre at Canada NYC

How do you make a 2-D image that is also a time-based artwork? Willy Le Maitre’s answer is to include multiple images in a lenticular print, so that, for example, a children’s play area runs together with icy branches and a glowing screen. Le Maitre explains that as viewers move back and forth before a piece, they use their eyes and their memory of what they’ve just seen to complete the picture. (At Canada NYC on the Lower East Side through June 5th).

Willy Le Maitre, particulated playground, 3D lenticular print, 48 x 36 inches, 2016.
Willy Le Maitre, particulated playground, 3D lenticular print, 48 x 36 inches, 2016.