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Levity/Density
Kasmin is pleased to announce Levity/Density, an exhibition of sculptural masterworks opening on July 11, 2019, in the gallery’s flagship location at 509 West 27th Street. Spanning 1960 – 2018 and including seven internationally acclaimed artists, the presentation muses on the dichotomy between the formidable mass that constitutes each work’s physicality and the resulting evocation of levity and vitality.
Featured in the exhibition are significant works by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976), John Chamberlain (1927 – 2011), Mark di Suvero (b. 1933), Alicja Kwade (b. 1979), George Rickey (1907 – 2002), Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), and David Smith (1906 – 1965).
One of the early innovators of kinetic sculpture, George Rickey articulates his acute sensitivity to movement as the aptest mode for expression with Two Lines Up Excentric Gyratory II, 1998. Meticulously constructed so the slightest change in air current activates a sequence of graceful gestures, the object achieves a sense of weightlessness that obscures the immediate recognition of its stainless steel structure.
Alexander Calder’s mobile sculpture, PADS AND SHOOTS, 1966, is a signature example of the artist’s pioneering investigations into color and motion. With its brilliantly red, leaf-like forms extending outward on wire branches, the work is filled with allusions to nature, akin to a number of the artist’s most celebrated works such as Arc of Petals, 1941 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.) The dancing figures, rotating around a central axis, are suggestive of the kinetic laws that govern the universe. Suspended from the ceiling but hanging close to the floor, the work demands only the slightest change in atmosphere to respond with graceful motion.
Joel Shapiro's Untitled, 2014, is an archetype of the artist's distinct configuration of simplified forms into dynamic compositions. Realized in bronze and on an impressive scale, Untitled, 2014, encompasses six cuboid elements, characteristically arranged such that it recalls a figure caught in spontaneous balletic movement.
Alicja Kwade’s Unbestimmter Tausch (indefinite exchange), 2014, emerges from the artist’s ongoing investigation into the cosmological concept of the multiverse. One elegant tree branch and its perfect copy in cor-ten steel lean against the wall, mirrored in their orientation. The striking simplicity of the work's final composition belies the complexity of its technical rigor. Unbestimmter Tausch (indefinite exchange) directly underscores the dichotomy between the industrial steel that constitutes one element and its natural counterpart, further manifesting Kwade's poetic inquiry into time and ontology.
Few works in David Smith’s revolutionary oeuvre better illustrate the artist’s concept of ‘drawing in space’ than Volton XIV I, 1963, in which Smith welded together robust steel elements into a lyrically balanced and refined totem. Working in a complementary manner, Mark di Suvero has mastered the alchemy of transforming industrial media into dynamic surfaces and elegant compositions that defy an object’s inherent mass, as manifested in Untitled, 2018.
Druid's Cluster (Swish), 1975, by John Chamberlain, is a noteworthy example of the artist’s distinct approach and technical prowess, in which he recomposes discarded, warped car metal into strikingly expressive intersecting forms.
The exhibition will be on view through August 16, 2019.
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Artist
Various Artists
Date
Jul 11 - Aug 16, 2019
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Installation view of Levity/Density
Kasmin Gallery, New York (509 West 27th Street)
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Levity/Density
2019 (July 11 - August 16)
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York
Photo by Christopher Stach
Levity/Density
2019 (July 11 - August 16)
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York
Photo by Christopher Stach
Levity/Density
2019 (July 11 - August 16)
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York
Photo by Christopher Stach
Levity/Density
2019 (July 11 - August 16)
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York
Photo by Christopher Stach
Levity/Density
2019 (July 11 - August 16)
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York
Photo by Christopher Stach
Levity/Density
2019 (July 11 - August 16)
Kasmin Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery, New York
Photo by Christopher Stach
Installation view of Levity/Density
Kasmin Gallery, New York (509 West 27th Street)
Artworks
Alexander Calder > <
PADS AND SHOOTS
Alicja Kwade > <
Unbestimmter Tausch (indefinite exchange)
Anthony Caro > <
Table Piece CCCVII
David Smith > <
Volton XIV I
George Rickey > <
Two Lines Up Excentric Gyratory II
Joel Shapiro > <
Untitled
John Chamberlain > <
Druid's Cluster (Swish)
Mark di Suvero > <
Untitled
Alexander Calder > <
PADS AND SHOOTS
Alicja Kwade > <
Unbestimmter Tausch (indefinite exchange)
Anthony Caro > <
Table Piece CCCVII
David Smith > <
Volton XIV I
George Rickey > <
Two Lines Up Excentric Gyratory II
Joel Shapiro > <
Untitled
John Chamberlain > <
Druid's Cluster (Swish)
Mark di Suvero > <
Untitled
Alexander Calder
Alicja Kwade
Anthony Caro
David Smith
George Rickey
Joel Shapiro
John Chamberlain
Mark di Suvero
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PADS AND SHOOTS
1966
painted sheet metal and steel wire
81 x 72 x 41 inches
205.7 x 182.9 x 104.1 cm
©2019 Calder Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
Unbestimmter Tausch (indefinite exchange)
2014
wood, corten steel, two parts
149 3/4 x 45 1/4 x 18 inches, each
380.4 x 114.9 x 45.7 cm, each
©Alicja Kwade. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
Table Piece CCCVII
1977-1978
rusted and varnished steel
27 3/4 x 45 1/2 x 25 inches
70.5 x 115.6 x 63.5 cm
©Anthony Caro. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery. Photography by Chris Stach.
Volton XIV I
1963
welded steel
84 5/8 x 15 x 39 inches
214.9 x 38.1 x 99.1 cm
©2018 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photography by Elisabeth Bernstein.
Two Lines Up Excentric Gyratory II
1998
stainless steel
126 x 100 x 100 inches
320 x 254 x 254 cm
©George Rickey. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
Photo by Diego Flores.
Untitled
2014
bronze
120 x 100 x 50 inches
304.8 x 254 x 127 cm
Edition of 2 + 1 AP (#2/2)
©Joel Shapiro. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
Photo by Diego Flores.
Druid's Cluster (Swish)
1975
painted and chromium-plated steel
65 x 71 x 20 inches
165.1 x 180.3 x 50.8 cm
©John Chamberlain. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery. Photography by Chris Stach.
Untitled
2018
stainless steel
70 1/2 x 80 x 53 inches
179.1 x 203.2 x 134.6 cm
© Mark di Suvero. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
Artists
Alexander Calder
Lawnton
Alicja Kwade
Katowice
Anthony Caro
New Malden
David Smith
Decatur
George Rickey
South Bend
Joel Shapiro
New York
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