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All images courtesy of artist. Georg Herold © 2013. |
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GEORG HEROLD EXHIBITION DATES
Georg Herold is a contemporary German artist living and working in Cologne. Herold’s figurative sculptures play with meaning and expression as evident in the use of clever titles, aggressive paint colors and acrobatic poses. As a contemporary of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther in the late seventies, Herold’s work exists between extremes, at once vivacious and suffering, flawless and imperfect.
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All images courtesy of artist. Kevin Todora © 2013. |
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KEVIN TODORA EXHIBITION DATES
Dallas-based artist Kevin Todora explores the photographic object. Todora’s artistic practice was informed by the exhibition Unmonumental, an exhibition about fragmented forms, torn pictures and clashing sounds, which occurred at the New Museum in 2008. Witnessing how photography could be the basis for sculpture, Todora’s work evolved into a fascination of the deconstruction of the photograph. Todora cuts and paints directly onto his photographs in an attempt to “free” the photograph from its original responsibility.
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All images courtesy of the artists. Lucia Simek and Kristen Cochran © 2013. |
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LUCIA SIMEK + KRISTEN COCHRAN EXHIBITION DATES
This two-person exhibition at Dallas Contemporary will explore architectural settings of the museum and examine the themes of impediment and stacking through sculptural installations and drawings. The process of stacking and folding summons the overriding interests of Cochran's and Simek’s art -- control, order, and insufficiency -- thus bridging their practices with the traditions of feminist art-making. Magical realism and oneiric repetition are also currents running through their works, including a series of plaster molds, tiny meditative or padded, cumbersome sculptural pieces, and drawings. Cochran’s process speaks to the traditions of live art and performance in that it is process oriented, abstract and conceptually driven, while Simek's works cull from minimalist and conceptual aesthetics, existing in the mode of indexical marks that focus viewer’s attention on the ephemeral and unseen. Both artists are leaning towards non-retinal pleasures. By building their own lexicon of meanings and sharpening it in a dialogue, Kristen Cochran and Lucia Simek convey a kind of sculptural calligraphy which they obtain from encoding the conceptual meanings of sculpture-making.
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