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Email PageMaking traces
October 12, 2007- November 10, 2007
Reception: October 12, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Lieven De Boeck, Elana Herzog
LMAK projects
526 W 26th StLMAKprojects is proud to present its new exhibition Making Traces with works by Lieven de Boeck and Elana Herzog. Both artists work with the experience of site and space. Their practices focus on the layering of time, place, absence, presence and process. Making Traces reflects on the interpretation of space and memory by confronting Herzog’s two monumental sculptures made from utilitarian textiles and staples with De Boeck’s light-boxes, neon sculpture and several smaller sculptures like a calendar and a book.
Elana Herzog integrates the fabrics into the wall with thousands of staples. These create metallic traces that follow the structures of the textiles. Part of the textile and some of the staples have been respectively removed, which results in shredded fabric and perforated wall surface in some areas, and densely stapled areas elsewhere, creating an image whose structure is generated directly from the weave of the fabric. The works are made on reinforced sheetrock panels, which are installed flush with the surrounding walls and seamlessly fused with them, expanding the boundaries of the piece to an indefinite degree. In her work there is an ambiguity of structure: the sweet warmth of the bedspread collides with the blinding staples, and the interior skin of the room is physically sustained within an indistinct and fragile structure.
Lieven de Boeck aims to develop a ‘dictionary of space’: creating a visual language for the different types of physical spaces that constitutes our spatial environment. He is interested in the changes that occur when individuals alter the occupancy of a ‘public space’: a house changes into home and a public square becomes a gathering for a series of personal activities. It is the existence of an intimate place within a public area that captivates him. This individualistic approach is the starting point of his work. This is also reflected within the exhibition, wherein he carefully placed his works, for instance his neon sculpture “let us be us,” which can be read in two ways. He initiates a reference to the memory of places, allowing the viewer to create different stories and form opinions.
Lieven de Boeck lives and works in Brussels, London and New York. He has had solos and two persons exhibitions at Netwerk, Aalst, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium both in Belgium and PM gallery, HDLU museum, Zagreb, Croatia and at Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His work has been included in group-exhibitions such as Repetti Gallery, New York, Artifact-Metafact, Curated by Carla Aspenberg and Tamas Vesni. The explores Club, New York, Reports in the archives. Curated by David Adamo and Ellie Ga with Cathleen Chaffee. Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, Float. Curated by Sara Reisman. Luxe gallery, New York. The Nightly News, curated by Kathleen Goncharov and Stephan Stoyanov. ICA, Philadelphia.‘Soft Sites” curated by Sara Reisman. Z33. Hasselt, Belgium. Excess. Curated by Pieter Van Bogaert. TENT. Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Elana Herzog lives and works in New York City. She has had solo and two persons exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, PPOW Gallery, in New York City, and the Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Her work has been internationally exhibited at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, the Gothenberg Konsthalle, Gothenberg, Sweden, and the 1994 Chilean Biennale, Valparaiso, Chile. It has been included in shows at The Museum of Arts and Design, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, at the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University. Herzog is the recipient of the 2007 and 1999 NYFA Fellowship, the1999 Joan Mitchell Award, the 2003 Lambent Fund Fellowship and the 2004 Lillian Elliot Award.
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