With an assertive anti-academism, changing the flowery, polished, finely sculpted work with earth or raw stone, and the grace and lightness required since Antiquity with the mass and chaos of voids, the vertigo and dichotomy of spaces, Michael Heizer exhibits us the clash of the Titans, that of stone towards steel, in Rock/Metal, a collection of monumental sculptures begun 5 years in the past. The collection has now been accomplished with 5 new sculptures and 5 new works on paper which might be designed to confound all our perceptions: set in gigantic angular metal buildings, monumental rocks, like megalithic ready-made that would evoke some science-fiction Stone Age vessel, appear to levitate and crush us with all their weight (from 13 to 23 tons, and even 27 to 40 with their metal case), while enlarged photographs of volcanic ejecta, silk-screened, sprayed with gouache and reworked with paint sticks and pencils, plunge us into blurred spaces with no bottom and no horizon. An unsettling expertise of adjusting scales and space-time displacement.
« Michael Heizer » – Galerie Gagosian
522 West 21st Road, New York (États-Unis)
Until 16 April
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2022/michael-heizer
Stéphanie Dulout
L’article MICHAEL HEIZER : The lyricism of the masses est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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