White Flag Projects: 6 January 2007

Modular: New Art from Los Angeles
January 6 - February 10, 2007
Opening reception Saturday, 6 January 2007,
2-6 pm

Hollis Cooper, Danny Jauregui, Nicole van Beek, Louisa Van Leer, Kevin Wingate, Bari Ziperstein

Curated by Dana Turkovic

White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its next exhibition, Modular: New Art from Los Angeles, curated by Dana Turkovic. The exhibition brings together six emerging artists living and working in one of the most important art-cities in America, and explores a radically fragmented visual culture that threatens to spin off into space or collapse in on itself like a dying sun, not unlike LA itself. Each work is set in a complex structure: LA being the constant factor relating a physical effect to the force producing it. Modular is arranged as a kind of construction kit, describing how a selection of young LA artists work separately through the same social, visual, architectural and natural landscape as distinct artists producing related work. Each of the artist’s embrace an IKEA-like philosophy of art making: the simpler the construction methods the better; the cheaper the materials the better, while making certain it still looks livable enough to have in your home, ideally modern and disposable. Within the composite fragments nothing quite looks out of place in the store the home or the museum. “Modular” attempts to define a style, which exploits geometry without being about geometry, combining the languages of architecture, furniture and biological structures to create deceptively complex art.

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