65GRAND will be open:
December 23-24 (12 – 5:30PM)
Brian Kapernekas group exhibition
“Loveland Pass”
GRÖLLE pass:projects
Wuppertal, Germany
DEC 3, 2011 – JAN 14, 2012
- ARTIST STATEMENT
- Structurally the work Object Permanence consists of boxes from light bulbs I changed at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum in 2009. Before this work took shape I was mostly re-making these boxes inside out, and contemplating. I found there to be something moving about breaking apart their structure and then re-building them inverted. There was the sound of the glue snapping, and the tension released in bending backwards the machine folded edges. Their intimidating and over-stimulating colors and unseen words of suggestion were silenced into a brown softness on the new outside. Holding these familiar boxes and tightening their form with drywall tape they became a vacuum for plaster. These coatings caused them to puff and cushion. Once skinned they were sealed with a primer, and then worked on with thinned oil paint and rags. These boxes were never considered to be garbage by me, yet. Piling products of thought.
- Transparency is part shipping container, storage, and self-reference. It stands in the place of my previous sculpture Triumph (2007), which could easily fit inside. “Oh no, not a box inside a box inside a box, and more cardboard in the gallery space,” I thought, “it had to be done.” Like spacing out on emptiness.
- DAVID INGENTHRON
