DUSK | Galerie Look&Listen | Saint Chamas

Dusk Editions' Embossed

Galerie Look&Listen

Opening 30 May 2015

Saint Chamas, France

Works-on-paper selected by Ky Anderson for Dusk.

Swirl, Ward Schumaker, acrylic on embossed paper, 15" x 13"

Participating artists: Shane Drinkwater (Australia), Brian Edmonds (US), Benjamin Gardner (US), J Grabowski (US), Molly Herman (US), Michael Krueger (US), Yifat Gat (FR), Emily Noelle Lambert (US), Meg Lipke (US), Jason Rohlf (US), Mason Saltarrelli (US), Ward Schumaker (US), Vicki Sher (US), Debra Smith (US), Sarajo Frieden (US).

Painter Ky Anderson (Brooklyn) embossed blank sheets with an inkless swirl of dashes, distributed them to fifteen artists, who used the sheets as a base for a piece of art. Besides this show in Saint Chamas, similarly created works by the same artists will appear in a show at Gallery Molly Krom in New York, opening 9 July 2015.

Me, I got interested in the swirl (that's how I saw Ky's embossment) to the point that I had to try a couple versions in a larger size:

Swirl 01, acrylic on paper, 45" x 34"

Swirl 02, acrylic on paper, 44" x 32"

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Vernissage 30 Mai 2015

Oeuvres sélectionnées par Ky Anderson of DUSK: Shane Drinkwater (Australia), Brian Edmonds (US), Benjamin Gardner (US), J Grabowski (US), Molly Herman (US), Michael Krueger (US), Yifat Gat (FR), Emily Noelle Lambert (US), Meg Lipke (US), Jason Rohlf (US), Mason Saltarrelli (US), Ward Schumaker (US), Vicki Sher (US), Debra Smith (US), Sarajo Frieden (US)

Pour sa nouvelle exposition, la galerie LOOK&LISTEN accueille Ky Anderson, artiste-peintre américaine, qui sera en résidence du 16 au 30 mai à Saint Chamas. L’exposition KY/ DUSK présente des pièces réalisées par Ky Anderson et des œuvres papier de quinze artistes internationaux, une série réalisée sur un papier gaufré dont le précédé a été finalisé dans l’atelier de gravure de Ky Anderson. LOOK&LISTEN les présente en avant-première, la série sera dévoilée intégralement à la galerie Molly Krum de New York dès le 9 juillet.

Les voila:

The Umbilical Cord Is Not Yet Cut

"I think that the rationalization of the vision of things rooted in the work of art is like the demasking of actors. It is the end of the game, it is the impoverishment of the question of the work. Not because art is an anagram with a hidden key; philosophy is this same anagram––solved. The difference is more profound. In the work of art the umbilical cord is not yet cut that joins it to the whole of the problem. The blood of the mystery is still circulating; the ends of the vessels escape into the surrounding night and return full of a dark fluid. In a philosophical interpretation we now have only extracted an anatomical specimen for an entire problem."

In a letter from Bruno Schulz to his friend Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, as quoted in Regions of the Great Heresy by Jerzy Ficowski (W. W. Norton 2003)

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