Open White Gallery<\/p>\n
11\u201313 September Gallery Weekend
\nSUN OIL with Charles Laib Bitton, Tadashi Toyama, Martin Aagaard Hansen & Yi Ten Lai
\nco-curated by Jeffrey Grunthanerowgallery.com<\/p>\n
OPEN WHITE GALLERY<\/p>\n
SUN OIL Press release 11\u201313 SEPTEMBER<\/p>\n
with TADASHI TOYAMA MARTIN AAGAARD HANSEN CHARLES LAIB BITTON & YI TEN LAI CO-CURATED BY JEFFREY GRUNTHANER<\/p>\n
HALLESCHES UFER 60, 10963 Berlin<\/p>\n
FRI 11.9, 18\u201322; SAT 12.9, 16\u201322 & SUN 13.9, 16\u201320<\/p>\n
On the occasion of Art Week and Gallery Weekend Berlin, Open White Gallery presents Sun Oil\u2013a group show with Charles Laib Bitton, Tadashi Toyama, Martin Aagaard Hansen and Yi Ten Lai, co-curated by Jeffrey Grunthaner. The exhibition will be open throughout 11\u201313 September. Sun Oil speaks to the abstraction of consciousness from technology, the recovery of magic from technique. Throughout the exhibition, space itself acts as a conduit for the experience of a mythic commons. Like the drawing of a sigil, the variousness of human possibility becomes apparent through an arpeggiated language of ritual and symbolism. The works on view protrude, hide and hang, showcasing the experience of meditation in its foundational state. Yi Ten Lai’s daily performance builds on emptiness. Her Materializing in sound, the air is a near perfect melding of sight and site\u2013highlighting human presence while making audible the impossibility of non-being. Tadashi Toyama\u2019s subjects spring from his unconscious. As though rediscovering a bygone tradition, his colorations describe the rudiments of social gatherings, where naturalistic forms blend with spirits and rituals. The works of Charles Laib Bitton are wryly personable. The digital screen cannot capture the warmth of his compositions, the materiality of his textures. Martin Aagaard Hansen\u2019s paintings portray rooms within rooms, a folkloric dystopia where wraiths converse across multiple dimensions. The contours of his lines create a layered atmosphere, like pages torn from a grimoire. In the teeth of technique, there\u2019s the acid light of the commons: an oil dripping from our nuclear sun, so unlike the glow of screens lighting up the darkened attic of our eyes. Traversing urban exteriors, ephemeral landscapes, and portraits, the perspective each artist takes on his or her themes foregrounds a pervasive sense of mystery. This refusal of closure is, in a sense, the moorings of art. There is no audience invoked by these works\u2013apart from the senses of the persons experiencing them.<\/p>\n
Text: Jeffrey Grunthaner<\/p>\n
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