{"id":8454,"date":"2019-12-02T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2025-02-12T22:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:39:19","slug":"walead-beshty-at-petzel-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/02\/walead-beshty-at-petzel-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walead Beshty Installation at Petzel Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many artists work with fascinating methods on which they, unfortunately, don\u2019t elaborate.\u00a0 Walead Beshty\u2019s latest installation at Petzel Gallery<\/a> swings to an almost opposite extreme, detailing the contents of his studio in over five thousand images picturing tools and objects that have contributed in some way to his production as an artist.\u00a0 Each cyanotype is the product of a simple photographic process that renders objects in white against a treated blue background of newspapers, boxes, personal correspondence and more. \u00a0Originally commissioned by London\u2019s Barbican Art Center in 2013, the installation (seen only in part at Petzel Gallery) still speaks powerfully to the incredible amount of unseen labor behind today\u2019s art production.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Dec 14th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Walead Beshty, installation view of \u201cA Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench\u201d at Petzel Gallery, Nov, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many artists work with fascinating methods on which they, unfortunately, don\u2019t elaborate.\u00a0 Walead Beshty\u2019s latest installation at Petzel Gallery swings to an almost opposite extreme, detailing the contents of his studio in over five thousand images picturing tools and objects that have contributed in some way to his production as an artist.\u00a0 Each cyanotype is … <\/p>\n

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