ART
Jacob Kassay |
Written 30 January |
Friday 14 May, 11:00Art: Concept, 75013 [map]Jacob Kassay
Art : Concept presents the first personal exhibition of artist Jacob Kassay. His practice includes painting, works on paper, mixed media, film, installation and collaborative projects. The New York artist will present a series of abstract paintings with silver metallic surfaces. Jacob Kassay’s pieces play, both literally and figuratively, with notions of opacity, reflection and transfer. His monochromes are chemically produced by means of an industrial technique – electro-plated in silver. The smooth and shiny surface of these paintings is somehow temporarily altered by the spectator’s passage.
Kassay’s paintings create a space-continuum in which the blurred and opaque reflections convey illusions of depth. Beyond the impact created by the light that alters any painting’s surface, we find that the importance granted to the space between the spectator and the inherent flatness of the canvas turns into a rebounding reference to the immaterial and conceptual sides of painting.
The exhibition is built around multiple considerations on illusions created by serial production and the impossibility to operate exact reproductions; defining the loss involved both in the transfer-processes and in any interpretative attempt. As an extension of such visual proposals, a performance and collaborative project between Jacob Kassay and
Rhys Chatham will be part of the exhibition.
