New Tom Burr, Lucas Jardin Solo Exhibits
Art shows you can’t miss this week in New York. We pick only 3.
1. Mateo López @ Casey Kaplan
October 29 — December 19
In his first solo exhibition in New York, Mateo López examines the boundary between two and three-dimensional realms in art. His new solo show “A Room inside a room,” gathers pieces that seem to suspend time, redefine object classification and explore spatial relations. An architect and draughtsman by training, López’s works investigate how we differentiate the creational acts of art and architecture and how artworks relate to space, in a manner that we often reserve only for architectural pieces.
On view at West 27th St, New York, NY
2. Tom Burr @ Bortolami Gallery
October 29 — December 23
“Circa,” the new solo exhibition of work from Tom Burr, gathers both recent pieces and those dating from the 1990s. The show includes pieces that illuminate Burr’s engagement with the intersection of public and private spheres, such as his renown photo series Palm Beach. The photos delineate private property through the contrast between private and non-private spaces. For the exhibit Burr is also recreating his Circa ’77 piece, a recreation of 1977's Platzspitz, a riverside park in Zurich that became an frequent meeting place for gay men, conflating public spaces and private actions.
On view at 520 West 20th Street, New York, NY.
3. Jeronimo Elespe @ Eleven Rivington
October 29 — December 20
Spanish artist Jeronimo Elespe uses his paintings and drawings to build his own memories of domestic and studio life into a lyrical, alternate reality. The drawings and paintings on view paintings exist somewhere between Elespe’s worldly present and imagined fantasy. He paints either by “meticulously encrusting and scrubbing oil paint on aluminum panels,” or by painting directly onto stretch linen, forcing his images to interact with the fabric’s inherent texture.
195 Chrystie Street, New York, NY
4. Lucas Jardin @ Odradek
October 1 — November 2
Although not in New York, Odradek’s new solo exhibition of Lucas Jardin’s paintings should definitely be mentioned as well this week. The Brussels exhibition presents five paintings from Jardin, who creates his works by applying turpentine oil to a range of printed commercial materials, whether it be advertisements, magazine pages, company logos or commercial posters. Thus Jardin clouds or obscurs the images’ original compositions, works backward to re-conceptualize the absoluteness of both the purpose of an object and the “finished” nature of a product while, through the gestural nature of his works, forcing the human into the commercial.
This post was written with the help of Alice Mahoney, from www.artlist.co
