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Seth Price 2008

February 9, 2008- March 8, 2008

Reception: February 9, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Seth Price

Friedrich Petzel Gallery

537 W 22nd St

Seth Price presents a new body of work, including flat wall-sculptures in wood, plastic and metal, as well as drawings. A book, to be published by The Leopard Press, will be available at the gallery.

1. A computer search for the most basic terms: 'eating', 'drinking', 'writing', 'touching', 'mother,' etc. The result might be a digital image, a "jpeg", for example. The image depicts human interaction: people kissing, someone being fed, a person laying a hand on another's shoulder. The situation is familiar, but not necessarily clear. At one point this was a photograph, now shrunken, squeezed through the eye of the needle, its information digitally compressed for easy circulation and distribution. It appears as a tiny, lapidary screen image, though we know that if enlarged it will slip away, its edges decaying as the effects of compression become evident.

2. This image is not used, in favor of the area around the image, the negative space, excess, that which lies between the figures.

3. Then, an industrial process: massive enlargement, computer-controlled cutting, woods, plastics, metal. A design process, the fabrication of a "look and feel" that had not previously existed.

Art Reviews of Seth Price 2008

New York Times February 22, 2008

Ken Johnson

"Smart, lucid essays by the resourceful and influential young conceptualist Seth Price persuasively argue that the best arena for today’s avant-gardists is not the art gallery but the Internet. Mr. Price still produces gallery art as one dimension of his multifaceted conceptualist enterprise, but he is not as interesting an object producer as he is a writer...."

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Friedrich Petzel Gallery Address 537 W 22nd St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-680-9467 Fax 212-680-9473 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6

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