ART
Nathan Hylden |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 20 March, 11:00Art: Concept, 75003 [map]Nathan Hylden
The opening of Art: Concept’s new space will be marked by a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Nathan Hylden. Once I Get Started is part of a progression of exhibitions titled Again And As If To Begin, Just Something Else, Starting To An End, Still Now Again, and Done And. By way of these titles the artist points at aspects of a painting practice based upon auto-reference, an investigation of the terms of a painting’s finality, and the personal temporal experience of making and exhibiting work. Hylden’s work is the result of a process that often generates its own logic of production.
The painting tools are either exposed or the traces of their use left visible. The artist considers the production as an entity inseparable from the final result, and his artistic practice is as much centred on the exhibition as medium (in the way space is occupied) as on the expanded concept of painting itself.
Once I Get Started is an exhibition that deals with the relation of an image to the material form in which it is manifest. As a result of his approach to this, Hylden’s system becomes exponential, expanding yet continuously folding back on itself. When choosing to represent a blank, unused, canvas, Hylden investigates the depictive and imaginative potential suggested by such an object.
