Posts Tagged ‘illusion’

Zilvinas Kempinas

Lithuania-born artist Zilvinas Kempinas creates site-specific installations that re-contextualize materials such as video tape to transform physical space into utter illusion. The physical and optical impact on the viewer is caused by precise geometry that utilizes both structure and light. Illusions of velocity and vibration are echoed through the space to accentuate the architecture and provide a new way of experiencing a familiar and otherwise non-descriptive space.

The artist has been living and working in New York City since the completion of his MFA at Hunter College in 2002. Kempinas has experienced rapid growth since his entire 2006 exhibition at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery was purchased for the Margulies Collection in Miami. Developing an international reputation, Kempinas has recently completed exhibitions with Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

  • April 24, 2010, filed under Installation, Sculpture; No Comments
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    • Dan Colen

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    “Secrets and Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors (My Friend Dash’s Wall in the Future)” is work by conceptual artist Dan Colen that is a life-size recreation of the interior wall of a friend. In Colen’s version, each element attached to the wall — every sticker, newspaper, photo and hand-written note — has been illusionistically painted by the artist. Colen extends this process of painting into other works that equally underscore value in the mundane and familiar through his painstakingly realist application. Colen is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (2001). Recently, the artist exhibited “No Me” with the Peres Projects in Berlin and the work above with the Deitch Projects in New York. Notable group exhibitions include “Fantastic Politics” at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, and USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

  • April 19, 2007, filed under Conceptual, Painting; No Comments
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