We are pleased to announce the launch of a solo exhibition of Alexander Gelman at imura art gallery kyoto. Alexander Gelman is an American artist based in New York and Tokyo. His work is included in public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Bibliotheque National de France and other major museums all around the world. Employing various media, Gelman challenges the boundaries between art, science and popular culture. As he has been publishing his works mostly in New York and Tokyo in recent years, it is going to be his first solo exhibition in Kyoto. We are going to show Gelman’s latest work series “Shadows” which is going to be publically presented for the first time at this exhibition. Shadow series deal with ambiguity of identity with which objects alter how they look depending on angles you approach them. Shadows are images that only preserve a dimension of surface of objects and lack the significant quality of identity. Yet they also exist as two-dimensional images that possess independent shape from the objects. As much as shadows are images lack in certain information, they also indicate the possibility to us that objects could be interpreted in a completely different context. Through this duality of shadows, Gelman extracts the essence of identity of objects and ideas not by accumulating its quality but concealing a part of it. He says his esthetic of subtraction, which excludes all the unnecessary elements and derives the essence of ideas, is the core of his creational process which people call “the ultimate simplicity connotes profound and complex meaning and interpretation”. And we share this esthetic of subtraction in our sense of “Ma” (space) from Japanese culture. Gelman shows profound sympathy and understanding toward Japanese culture. It is not superficial and exotic culture that catches his eyes. His enthusiastic interest lies in the various Japanese cultures such as Japanese crafts, art, martial arts, performing arts and way of incense, and through them he contemplates the principle of philosophy and esthetic of Japan inherited ceaselessly. His works will be also exhibited at art fair Cho-Kyoto (超京都) from 11th [fri] ー 13th [sun] November, taking place at Meisho-shouseien (Higashi-honganji temple).
[Artist’s profile] Alexander GELMAN Exhibitions 2004 Limited Run: Gelman Vs. Roth. Andrew Rorth Gallery, New York 2004 Gelman/Davis. Andrew Rorth Gallery, New York 2004 16 Skateboards.Special Gelman installation. The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, China 2005 Elemental Narratives. Three large scale installations at CET, Tokyo 2006 The Alexander Gelman Exhibition: New York Connection. GGG, Tokyo 2006 Treasure Map. Alexander Gelman installation at CET, Tokyo 2007 Little Black.. New Works by Alexander Gelman. Installation at Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo 2008 GELMAN-IZE & DAVIZ-IZE, Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo 2009 Gelman’s Masterpieces, Kakitsubata,Tokyo 2010 Corner, an International Group Show, Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo Literature 2000 Subtraction (RotoVision, UK) 2004 Infiltrate (BIS, Amsterdam) 2006 Gelman Thinks (Browns, London) 2006 Alexander Gelman (GGG, Tokyo) 2007 Alexander Gelman: Little Black Sequencer, New York 2009 Alexander Gelman: Postglobal, PHP Publishing Inc., Tokyo 2010 Gelman’s Chess: The artisan Experience, Globally Local Media, Tokyo 2011 35°38’ N 139°42’30” E, Sequencer, New York, Tokyo Chess Collectible, Sequencer, New York, Tokyo Shadows, Sequencer, Sequencer, New York, Tokyo Temptations, Sequencer, Sequencer, New York, Tokyo Obscured by Clouds, Sequencer, New York, Tokyo Public collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the United States of America Smithsonian Museum, the United States of America French National Library, Paris, France Denver Art Museum, Colorado, the United States of America
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Period: November 10 – 30, 2011 Venue: IMURA ART GALLERY Kyoto Reception: 12th [sat] November, 2011 17:00 ー
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