Bruno David Gallery: Thursday, 24 January 2019

CARMON COLANGELO: Infinite Abstraction
BARRY ANDERSON: Fragments of Space (Media Room)
GRASSHOPPER: Daily Life (Project Room)

Opening Reception:Thursday, January 24. 5-8 pm
January 24 – March 1, 2019
Gallery Talk with the Artists Saturday, February 9, 2019. 4 pm

Carmon Colangelo’s series of new printed paintings are composed of ink on canvas that are generated from hand drawings and digital media exploring the infinite possibilities of abstraction. Inspired by geometric and biomorphic abstraction, the work experiments with the endless and unique combinations that result from a personal reflexive process and computational system. Remixing, sampling and riffing off of iconic modern and contemporary paintings, the fusion of images is manipulated to create a fantastical illusionistic space by morphing, stretching and distorting geometric planes, colors and shapes. Expanding on Colangelo’s daily practice, the result is a generative series of colorful works where meaning is adaptable to shifting cultural and social conditions, in an age of networks and algorithms where everything is fluid. Colangelo feels the issues in painting have become somewhat similar to printmaking; defending its’ relevancy and agency as well as arguing for its historical past. Decidedly, each work is a one-of -a-kind impression that is physically made in the studio without regard to reproducibility. Viewed as a whole the paintings create an environment full of energy and optimism, where the importance of intuitive artistic play in the creative process is untethered to generate a vast idiosyncratic world and a joyful experience without a beginning, middle and end.

Fragments of Space is a series of animations exploring imaginary architectural and psychological spaces. These minimalist works exist as endless, inescapable movements of exploration and claustrophobia. The animations were created wholly using digital 3D design tools.

The exhibition Daily Life, an overview of the practice of the artist known as GRASSHOPPER from 2000 to 2010, will feature works from a New York City private collection. These never-shown works from the private collection of Paul Ochman, follow in the tradition of outsider artists Adolf Wölfli, Henry Darger and Bodys Isek Kingelez, inviting us to imagine a vignette of the artist’s daily life. “Languages need to start somewhere,” he said and invented his own. By developing a bilingual dictionary in which this new language can be seen through the dialogue of his characters, the artist exemplifies his own methodical and driven creative process. GRASSHOPPER started his art practice in his 50’s. Many of his drawings are directly reflective of his daily life at the time, from observing people interacting in an office (“Antilios”), to being hungry (“Food”), to traveling (“Transportation”), and translating these in his distinctive works.

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