September 6–October 26, 2013
Opening: Friday September 6
Elaine Levy Project
rue Fourmois, 9
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Hours: Thursday–Saturday 2–6pm
and by appointment
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info [at] elainelevyproject.com
Elaine Levy Project is proud to present the first solo show in Europe by American artist Israel Lund from September 6 to October 26.
The new series introduces a pictural element that departs from his recent works shown at Roberts & Tilton (LA) and Eleven Rivington (New York): each painting bears the same pattern of vertical columns. The intricate mist of colors and the discreet serial shapes are now hindered by stark white bars.
Israel Lund’s work was until now based on a cycle of successive reproductions of his own pictural material, processed through actual silkscreen as well as iPhone capture applications. Painting is thus thought as an analogy of the Larsen effect: the material is self-generated in a grey zone where the difference between control and accident become confused.
Now Lund inserts a new layer: a surprisingly clear reference to Daniel Buren’s signature work. Indeed, the image comes from an actual Buren piece photographed in a gallery, then stripped to its most essential. Yet, it bears the trace of the blunt tool that took the sample: one of the stripe is now altered by the flash on the iPhone.
Until now, the reflexive aspect of Lund’s work was induced by concrete techniques and material gestures; the overt quotation opens a new conceptual field. Referring to the eptiome of impersonal art in Buren’s work, the self-claimed “painting degree zero,” the famous regular stripes, is obvioulsy on purpose. Former works were denying images as a mean of representation, they were not linked to an external object; yet they were referring to all the other variations of the same series, without hierachy, as a post-tonal melody. Now, the interactions are not only horizontal, but also vertical, since another layer is played at the same time, subject to very similar yet very different rules, present and absent, material and conceptual, referential and tautological, thus producing a disonant harmony.
F. Delval / Elaine Levy Project
Israel Lund will also be exhibiting together with Sam Korman at Middlemarch (www.middlemarch.be).
The opening is part of Brussels Art Days weekend. More information here.
Next Year Program @ ELP
Israel Lund
Kate Steciw
Philippe Van Wolputte
Adrien Lucca
Ben Horns / Erick N. Mack
Bernard Guerbadot / Otis Jones / Bret Slater