ART
Larry Bell / Jeppe Hein |
Written 30 January |
Monday 25 October, 10:00Galerie Daniel Templon, 75003 [map]Larry Bell / Jeppe Hein
For his first exhibition at Galerie Templon, the young Danish artist
Jeppe Hein has chosen to invite master Californian minimalist
Larry Bell to join him for a dialogue exhibition that examines their respective artistic approaches.
Now aged over seventy, Larry Bell is recognised, alongside contemporaries such as
Donald Judd,
Sol Lewitt or
Dan Flavin, as one of the key figures of American minimalism. His works explore light and perception. He made his reputation with sculptures whose geometry and subtly iridescent surfaces question our relationship to space. Fascinated by the structure of the cube, and working mostly in glass, he creates objects of unsettling ambiguity: transparent yet opaque, posing both as volume and surface, his cubes dissolve the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
Jeppe Hein belongs to a younger generation of artists who have incorporated the minimalist codes in order to better subvert them. His installations and spare geometric objects use minimalist language to propose interactive mechanisms. His work combines a mediation on architecture, the “relational aesthetic”, with reflections on “the environment” in a broader sense. For this exhibition, Jeppe Hein takes a series of Larry Bell’s cubes as his starting point which stand in counterpoint to his own recent works, playful and provocative, inviting the viewer to get involved and communicate with the sculptures.
