{"id":974,"date":"2012-01-17T22:54:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2012-01-17T22:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:54:04","slug":"doug-wheeler-at-david-zwirner-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/doug-wheeler-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Wheeler at David Zwirner Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doug Wheeler, SA MI 75 DZ NY 12, 2012, photo courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Relational aesthetics took a beating last fall as critics decried participatory artworks like Carsten Holler\u2019s three story slide at the New Museum and MoMA\u2019s installation of Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s free lunch.\u00a0 The visitor\u2019s physical experience is also key to Doug Wheeler\u2019s installation which opened today at David Zwirner Gallery and recreates a 1975 piece made in Milan by the influential So Cal \u2018Light and Space\u2019 artist.\u00a0 But the hushed environment, limited to ten people at a time and entered after donning white booties so as to keep the floor pristine, is all about aesthetics, and less about interrelating with your fellow gallery goers.<\/p>\n

The lighting in the installation changes in intensity and color as it simulates the transitions from dawn to day to dusk, slowly revealing where the boundaries of the flat floored, egg-shaped room are.\u00a0 But even in the strongest light, it\u2019s a strain to make out where gallery wall ends and floor begins; only the toes can tell as you feel the floor\u2019s upward slope.\u00a0 The impulse is to find the spot where your senses are most confused.<\/p>\n

Visitors who stayed in the gallery the longest this morning inched their way to the front and center of the installation and stood looking into an optical illusion \u2013 a space that appeared to extend to infinity.\u00a0 The sensation was like peering into a deep fog or a snowstorm (under comfortable conditions) as my perception of space kept shifting to make sense of what I was seeing.<\/p>\n

Wheeler\u2019s installation recalls James Turrell\u2019s installations, in which visitors approach a shape on the wall only to realize that it\u2019s a rectangle of recessed light.\u00a0 Here, the experience is more intimate \u2013 like entering into the space occupied by light rather than gazing in from the outside.\u00a0 Uta Barth\u2019s photographs of light come to mind, as do Yayoi Kusama\u2019s Infinity Nets but both treat light and infinity as more concrete subjects than Wheeler does with what he calls his \u2018molecular mist.\u2019\u00a0 The scale and ambition of Wheeler\u2019s project won\u2019t be matched again soon in New York; catch it while you can and arrive early to avoid lines.<\/p>\n

For more background, read Randy Kennedy\u2019s Jan 15th<\/sup> NYT article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Relational aesthetics took a beating last fall as critics decried participatory artworks like Carsten Holler\u2019s three story slide at the New Museum and MoMA\u2019s installation of Rirkrit Tiravanija\u2019s free lunch.\u00a0 The visitor\u2019s physical experience is also key to Doug Wheeler\u2019s installation which opened today at David Zwirner Gallery and recreates a 1975 piece made in … <\/p>\n

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