Five Sculptures
by NY arts
Jennifer Bolande’s There, There (1990) initially appears to be a composition of found objects. Slowly one senses something is amiss as, in fact, all the elements are slyly fabricated. The arrangement and dimensions of two loudspeakers now suggest a hearth and picture over the mantelpiece. Bolande is known for her discreet transformations of photography into sculpture and the real into the metaphorical. Her work was recently shown in The Photogenic: Photography Through Its Metaphors in Contemporary Art at the ICA, Philadelphia and will be included in the forthcoming Living Inside the Grid at the New Museum, N.Y.
Willie Cole will exhibit a new pair of Gas Snakes. Of his September 2002 solo show at Alexander and Bonin, The New Yorker said "The New Jersey bricoleur and visual humorist is in top form with pseudo-African sculptures of bicycle parts, an X-shaped pool table…" Cole’s work is included in more than thirty permanent museum collections and has been the subject of solo
exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of Art, Miami Art Museum, Museum of Modern
Art, New York and the St. Louis Art Museum.
A ring of green glass bottles makes up Mona Hatoum’s Vicious Circle. This
simple and elegant sculpture suggests addiction, although not necessarily
the literal one implied by the wine bottles. Hatoum has often used images
and objects from every day life to examine the stability of one’s
foundations. Her work is the subject of the current exhibition at Alexander
and Bonin (through November 27th) and has been extensively exhibited
throughout the world most recently at Documenta 11 and Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela.
Entrance (1989) by Rita McBride is perhaps the first manifestation of her
long interest in awnings. A steel canopy, striped with pigment, is
suspended from the wall by heavy load strapping. This form and its slightly
threatening installation evokes Minimalist steel sculpture and its pigmented
surface suggests a painting hanging above us. An exhibition of McBride’s
work from 1990 to the present, initially travelling from the DePont
Foundation in Tilburg, remains on view at the Institut d’Art Contemporain,
Villeurbanne, France until January 12, 2003. McBride received a Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Grant earlier this year.
In the largest and most complex of Doris Salcedo’s furniture and cement
sculptures, Untitled 2001, two large armoires intersect, the horizontally
placed larger of the two piercing the smaller vertically oriented cabinet.
Salcedo’s evocative sculptures reference the violence of daily life in
Colombia and have been internationally exhibited since 1995. Installations
of multiple cement and furniture pieces have been presented at the Carnegie
International, Pittsburgh (1995), Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
(1996), Bienal de Sao Paulo (1998) and The Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary
Art. A survey exhibition of her work will be presented at Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in early 2004.
For further information please contact Erin Salazar at 212/367-7474 or visit
our website:
www. alexanderandbonin.com.
EXHIBITION: SCULPTURE
DATES: December 7, 2002 – January 18, 2003
LOCATION: 132 Tenth Avenue between 18th and 19th
HOURS: Tuesday — Saturday 10am to 6p
(closed December 22 — January 1)
