IVAN NAVÁRRO
Concentration Camp 集中营
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时间：17日 11月– 10日1月, 2006-07
地点：纽约 Roebling Hall
Reception: Friday, November 17, 6-8pm
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Roebling Hall空间将非常荣幸的呈现Ivan Navarro的第二个个展《集中营》。发光的灯形雕塑对照出它们关于恐惧和控制的黑暗主题。利用了灯光和工业材料，艺术家建造了一个诉说视觉和政治有关的故事。
Roebling Hall is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by Ivan Navarro. Titled, “Concentration Camp,” Navarro’s luminescent light based sculptures work in contrast to their darker themes of control & fear. Using lighting & industrial materials, Navarro builds pieces that tell a story both visually and politically.
In the current installation Navarro uses his characteristic fluorescent and neon sculptures to order the gallery into three major parts, all of which reflect different aspects of power and its effects. The first work in the gallery, an enveloping drawing in light, snakes around the gallery vestibule and hallways like a glowing frieze, describing a train of dominant and subservient figures. The gallery’s main space is entirely darkened, excepting for the light emitted by four black light neon sculptures, which describe alternately, a chandelier, a basketball hoop, and two chairs of high design. Illustrating the breadth of Navarro’s practice, the exhibition’s final work, “Flashlight,” introduces yet another aspect of this artist’s work: video, along with a sculpture on wheels, which together relate a tale of transience and loss.
“Navarro’s dazzling sculptural forms suggest utopian longings of Modernist design. But his electrified objects also hint at elements of a bad dream or instruments of torture, as their seductively glowing light surges with undercurrents of darkness.”*
Ivan Navarro has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the US in, among other venues, the Whitney Museum, Witte de With-Rotterdam, Project Space 176-London, the Busan Biennale in Korea, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo (Spain). “Artificial Light,” opened this Fall at the VCUarts Anderson Gallery in conjunction with Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Goldman Warehouse in Miami, from December 7, 2006, thru February 18, 2007, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, from September 19 thru January 11, 2007.
*From “Artificial Light,” by John B. Ravenal, Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, September 2006
[url]www.roeblinghall.com
Concentration Camp 集中营
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时间：17日 11月– 10日1月, 2006-07
地点：纽约 Roebling Hall
Reception: Friday, November 17, 6-8pm
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Roebling Hall空间将非常荣幸的呈现Ivan Navarro的第二个个展《集中营》。发光的灯形雕塑对照出它们关于恐惧和控制的黑暗主题。利用了灯光和工业材料，艺术家建造了一个诉说视觉和政治有关的故事。
Roebling Hall is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by Ivan Navarro. Titled, “Concentration Camp,” Navarro’s luminescent light based sculptures work in contrast to their darker themes of control & fear. Using lighting & industrial materials, Navarro builds pieces that tell a story both visually and politically.
In the current installation Navarro uses his characteristic fluorescent and neon sculptures to order the gallery into three major parts, all of which reflect different aspects of power and its effects. The first work in the gallery, an enveloping drawing in light, snakes around the gallery vestibule and hallways like a glowing frieze, describing a train of dominant and subservient figures. The gallery’s main space is entirely darkened, excepting for the light emitted by four black light neon sculptures, which describe alternately, a chandelier, a basketball hoop, and two chairs of high design. Illustrating the breadth of Navarro’s practice, the exhibition’s final work, “Flashlight,” introduces yet another aspect of this artist’s work: video, along with a sculpture on wheels, which together relate a tale of transience and loss.
“Navarro’s dazzling sculptural forms suggest utopian longings of Modernist design. But his electrified objects also hint at elements of a bad dream or instruments of torture, as their seductively glowing light surges with undercurrents of darkness.”*
Ivan Navarro has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the US in, among other venues, the Whitney Museum, Witte de With-Rotterdam, Project Space 176-London, the Busan Biennale in Korea, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo (Spain). “Artificial Light,” opened this Fall at the VCUarts Anderson Gallery in conjunction with Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Goldman Warehouse in Miami, from December 7, 2006, thru February 18, 2007, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, from September 19 thru January 11, 2007.
*From “Artificial Light,” by John B. Ravenal, Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, September 2006
[url]www.roeblinghall.com
