MATEO TANNATT – HORSE

Posted on 2015-03-16

Tannatt is an L.A.-based artist who deals with formal inquisitions of space via sculpture, video, and painting. His most recent project, Studio Agony (Revisited) will be on view alongside a newly commissioned sound piece. In the video, Mateo explores an undefined industrial, creative warehouse with the help of quasi-domestic animals such as donkeys and chickens. As the animals traverse the empty room, their interactions with the architecture trigger various memories of modern and contemporary visual experience. As viewers, we move about the gallery in a similar manner, becoming both aware of and displaced from the sculptural forms installed alongside the works. Continuing into a smaller, adjoining room, a series of paintings and sculptures address aerial geometry, mathematics, and color implications.

Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2015

Gallery Diet
174 NW 23 Street
Miami
FL 33127

gallerydiet.com

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MONIKA BRAVO – LANDSCAPE OF BELIEF

Posted on 2015-03-16

Landscape of Belief is a series of five installation works that call into question how we construct our lives according to our belief systems. The viewer experiences each sculpture as animations composed of text projected and floating diaphanously in glass panels. These texts that generate skylines of real and imaginary landscapes were culled from descriptions of illusory cities and from conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. In Landscape of Belief, Bravo creates a parallel between literature and architecture, as they both define, translate, and shape physical and mind structures.

By carefully overlapping surfaces, a rich non-material space of emptiness is achieved throughout the time-based composition. As a whole, the installation presents nothingness as an object, thus allowing for the space of the metaphysical to challenge the viewer. As the viewers are immersed in the projection, they are given the opportunity to experience the prospect of awareness, of the power of their belief systems and how they define the landscape of their lives. The installation took three years to make and addresses two important issues in the trajectory of Bravo’s work, such as the shifting definition of the medium and the physical manifestation of the piece. Bravo employs a variety of mediums such as archival pigment on cotton rag and film, glass, and aluminum.

Exhibition runs through to April 4th, 2015

Y Gallery
165 Orchard Street
New York
NY 10002

www.ygallerynewyork.com

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