ART
Jim Isermann |
Written 15 June |
Tuesday 23 February, 11:00Praz Delavallade, 75013 [map]Jim Isermann
Praz-Delavallade presents the fourth exhibition devoted to the Los Angeles based artist
Jim Isermann. Though many contemporary artists are mining the reservoirs of American design history for direction in their fine art practice, Jim Isermann has long been at the forefront of these concerns.
Through wall hangings, hand-woven rugs, fabric-covered sculptural cubes and vinyl-patterned murals he embraces the possibility of utopia in all its aesthetic and functional forms. Isermann’s art practice have fixated on the exchange of visual information between abstraction and design, mixing elements of “high” and “low” styles, celebrating the decorative potential of geometric abstraction and revealings the symbiotic relationship between fine and applied art. Isermann adapts the formal language of minimalism and abstraction to the utilitarian prescriptions of contemporary design: his eye-popping paintings and patterned sculptures flirt with functionality, embodying abstract modernism’s quick evolution into the principles of design.
Jim Isermann born 1955, lives and works in Palm Springs.
