Congratulations to Cristin Tierney and Denis Gardarin

I am extremely excited to share the news that my dealer Cristin Tierney has partnered with Denis Gardarin to create the Tierney Gardarin Gallery. I am so thrilled to be a part of this exciting new direction for the gallery. As you know, I had my first solo exhibition at the Cristin Tierney Gallery in January of 2011 and have enjoyed the support and guidance Cristin has offered over the past couple of years. I look forward to working with both Cristin and Denis and to what the future holds!

To excerpt from the announcement:

Established in 2010 by Cristin Tierney, the Cristin Tierney Gallery was founded with a commitment to artist development, collection advisory services, and arts education. Under the new partnership, Tierney Gardarin Gallery will focus on creating an environment that moves beyond the white box model, exploring critical theory and art historical themes. Through the partnership, and with the collaboration of guest curators, Tierney Gardarin Gallery aims to present museum quality exhibitions by working with mid-career artists and under-recognized contemporary art movements.

The gallery’s roster is comprised of a diverse range of emerging and mid-career artists, including but not limited to, Peter Campus, Joe Fig, Malia Jensen, Alois Kronschlaeger, Marman and Borins, Jean Shin, and Jorge Tacla. The estate of Geraldo de Barros and the artist Ryan Mosley will be added to the gallery’s roster, and Mosley will have his first solo New York exhibition at the gallery opening on June 27, 2013.

Installation Shots from The drawing. The painting. The sculpture.

Very excited to be sharing these photographs of the installation of The drawing. The painting. The sculpture. curated by Mathias Kessler. Now you can fully see the conversation between my work and Aldo Chaparro’s.

The opening of The drawing. The painting. The sculpture

After a week of on-site preparation, The drawing. The painting. The sculpture. came together. It was such a pleasure working on this project with Aldo Chaparro. Many thanks to Mathias Kessler for organizing. Here are some photographs from the opening. Cheers!

Mathias Kessler and Aldo Chaparro.

Johnatan Molina and Florencia Minniti.

Raiza Larios and Friends.

In front of Aldo’s piece.

Installing The drawing. The painting. The sculpture

Here we are, hard at work installing The drawing. The painting. The sculpture. at Aldo Chaparro’s Project Space in Mexico City!

 

Finishing touches on the cube

Construction continues on the cube for The drawing. The painting. The sculpture. at Aldo Chaparro Project Space in Mexico City!

Aldo Chaparro

I am so thrilled to be showing with Aldo Chaparro for The drawing. The painting. The sculpture. at his project space in Mexico City. As the press release mentions, my friend Mathias Kessler has known Aldo for many years and was surprised to see such similarities in our work, though we had never met. Mathias invited me to be a part of this two-person show and last week, I arrived in Mexico City with Florencia to meet Aldo for the first time. I cannot tell you how amazing our time here has been. Aldo has been a great host, inviting me to stay at his home and work in his studio. I am extremely grateful for all he has done, and though it has only been a short time, I now consider Aldo a dear friend.

To give you some background, Aldo is originally from Lima, Peru and lives and works in Mexico City. Having worked as not only as an artist but also as a magazine editor and creative director in several areas of pop culture, Aldo combines his art with influences from different disciplines, including music, industrial design, editing, and writing. He manipulates his works to engage in a dialogue with the audience about time, space, experience, and memory. This manipulation and exploration ultimately reveals the true, banal nature of the appeal of pop imagery.

The drawing. The painting. The sculpture.

Aldo Chaparro and Alois Kronschlaeger
Curated by Mathias Kessler

April 9th, 2013 | Opening: 5 pm
Aldo Chapparo Project Space | Cozumel 81-1 Colonia Roma | 06140 Mexico D.F.

Mathias Kessler is pleased to present The drawing. The painting. The sculpture. featuring Aldo Chaparro and Alois Kronschlaeger in the Aldo Chaparro Project Space in Mexico City opening April 9th, 2013 at 5pm. The artists and curator will be present.

Observing the studio practice over the last 10 years, Kessler found that Chaparro of Mexico City and Kronschlaeger of New York City had a striking similarity of aesthetic output. To him, there was what he would call a Zeitgeist, a seemingly inexplicable connection of time and spirit – one that created a two-tiered body of work without the two artists knowing each other or exchanging ideas as peers would normally do. Their work reflects similar concerns in architecture, minimalism, and the notion of the spacial relationship to the viewer, and now, the artistsʼ work will come together for the first time an exhibition at the Aldo Chaparro Project Space in Condesa, Mexico City.

Kronschlaeger is best known for his site-specific installations and sculptures, which demonstrate a preoccupation with environment and light, as well as an interest in exploring time and space via geometry. Within the past two years, Kronschlaegerʼs work has grown in scale from encompassing the entire horizontal plane of the Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York to spanning the vertical axis of a 4-story abandoned building with in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Biomorphic in shape, his architectural interventions penetrate multiple planes on a monumental scale with the objective to create new architectural vantage points within a constructed environment.

Chaparro has worked as an artist, magazine editor, and creative director in several facets of popular culture – a mix that reflects in his work. While he has similar concerns to those of Kronschlaeger, his work is tied to the world of popular culture with references to conceptual art and minimalism. Chaparro cleverly incorporates pop imagery into his artwork with poignant humor, turning it on its head, exposing the banality, and literally twisting it in color and material.

The title of the exhibition comes from Luis Camnitzerʼs The Photograph., 1981, an artwork that references Chaparro and Kronschlaegerʼs allusions to art history but also the current inquiry in exploring the semiotics of space and time through artistic practice.

The drawing. The painting. The sculpture.
Aldo Chaparro and Alois Kronschlaeger | Curated by Mathias Kessler
April 9th, 2013 | Opening: 5 pm
Aldo Chapparo Project Space | Cozumel 81-1 Colonia Roma | 06140 Mexico D.F.
To schedule an appointment, please call 52114573.
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