The Paul Kasmin Gallery (293 10th Ave. which is really the corner of 27th and 10th) is exhibiting Frank Stella "Polychrome Relief". This exhibit consisted of twelve relief sculptures made out of stainless steel, springs, coils, lattice varitation and metal tubing/piping. Vibrant spray painting, that resembled the glossiness of car paint, was used to bring attention to the fluidity of the compositions. The twelve pieces curved, twisted, jumped and ducked through themselves creating an illusion of a completely different piece from every perspective it was viewed from. I already admire Stella's work and draw some inspiration from his years of work. So to see these new works in person was a pleasure. The size of them is so impressive and even the pieces that were simply all white were quite stunning.
Not enough here Kelly, more about why you like the work.
ReplyDeleteoh ok.. i just thought that i was suppose to stay away from the "i likes" in our gallery reviews. But in this case.... I have always been interested in Stella from a young age when I first saw the black paintings. the simplicity and minimalism in his work is really interesting to me. last year I was really looking at Stella for his irregular shaped canvases because that was what I was working on in my own body of work. so I went and saw his show in chelsea last year. With this more recent show, I found completely fascinating and visually stimulating. I love color interaction. Stella's palette is really vibrant, but he doesn't seem to over do it. This is something I took from the exhibition. I love my out of control bright palette, but sometimes I feel that it's too much. SO I looked at that aspect in Stella show. My work is also moving towards high relief and more sculptural, so the physical aspect of this show was important to me. granted... these are straight up sculpture, but they are still hung on the wall(well... most of them). So I was looking at how being mounted on the wall effected the viewing of the work. Stella's pieces became like whole new pieces from every angle and this interested me. They seem multi-faceted pieces almost(i don't know if that makes sense) and so I began to think about my current works'(high and low relief paintings) view points. I was interested by the materials that Stella used because, before I started my BFA I was torn between going for painting and sculpture, it seemed like a good marriage of painting and sculpture. What I mean by this is that the forms in these works resemble brushstrokes but are presented in a sculptural form. So in summary, I like Stella for numerous reason, but the main reason is how I get inspired to look at my work in a different perspective. Stella's works seem to point out conceptual and formal aspects that I haven't considered yet. I hope this is how you wanted me to elaborate...
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