January 30 – March 12, 2016
Radek Szlaga is participating in a show at Postmasters Gallery.
Lawrence Weiner | Elliott Young | Wang Xu | Nick van Woert | Radek Szlaga | Agathe Snow | Harriet Salmon | Ryder Ripps | Pussykrew | Niki de Saint Phalle | Serkan Özkaya | Jennifer Catron & Paul Outlaw | Narcissister | Jenny Morgan | Jonathan Monaghan | Laura Murray | Gregg Louis | Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens | Kristen Jensen | Daria Irincheeva | Andrew Thomas Huang | Hugh Hayden | C.J. Chueca | Monica Cook | James Case-Leal | John Byam | Olaf Breuning | Bogyi Banovich
Postmasters is pleased to present an exhibition of small sculptures and big ideas. The works in the show – made from porcelain (both sculpted and 3D printed), ceramics or bronze, as well as less traditional materials such as horse manure, pixels, and words – were created by 28 artists between 1980 and now, measure one inch to two feet, and aim to address concepts of love, religious mass suicide, bio-tech spores, vagrancy, identity, alchemy, economic equilibrium and digital artifacts, among others.
This exhibition is my offering for you, the viewer, to rediscover small scale. If you are still at a loss of experience, rub the bronze nose for good luck on your way out.
Artists have an ability to move monumental ideas through their art into our minds and souls. Personally, some of my most meaningful experiences include conversations with artists enveloped by the totality of their preoccupations, obsessions, imagination, knowledge, and interpretations. The title of the exhibition this one is smaller than this one. manifested itself into existence through the mind of the poet Robert Fitterman, during one such memorable conversation around a dinner table.
Ryder Ripps comments on the question of how does one commodify the popularity of digital ephemera by rarifying one of the most popular internet memes, Pepe The Frog, rendering it in 15 ounces of 18 karat solid gold – effectively creating the rarest Pepe in the world. The Rare Pepe, or Why Post-Internet Art Is Stupid also has a his own website goldpepe.com. This ubiquitous meme started in 2005 and has been seen on everywhere from your mom’s feed to Miley Cyrus’. The meme’s irony is that one digital image can be “rarer” than another, which is also its punchline.
http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/small16/small16direct.html
