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Exhibition: "Horizons" Curated by Christian Rattemeyer, Artists Space in New York | |||
Horizons are visual thresholds; they extend to the edges of space that exists almost exclusively as a perceptual phenomenon, although with deep emotional consequences. Marked by clear and sharp borders, the liminal spaces where two elements touch simultaneously impose a sense of order and clarity and a feeling of longing and transgression. They are almost always distant, both celestial and oceanic in character. But as they mark the transition from one sphere to another, they also give form to each. They divide the picture plane into distinct visual zones and are one of the most basic compositional elements of visual art. Horizons are both an abstract, geometric device, and are firmly rooted in the perceptual realm of nature and the real world. A horizon can be as succinct as a line and as flamboyant as a landscape. But in each instance, the image retains a connection with the horizon's origin as the edge of the known world, as the radical threshold of our existence. As such, horizons are always monumental in scope, regardless of scale. In fact, even quite intimate pictures can have an effect of vast expansiveness. In this exhibition, the subject of the horizon brings together works from radically different artistic traditions and looks at the ways in which abstraction and figuration blur in the figure of the horizon. Abstract compositions such as Blinky Palermo's combined canvases become landscapes, and Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs of seascapes appear like monochromes. Mediated by the examples from the 1970s, which meticulously render the appearances of horizon lines only to arrive at effects of staggering abstraction, the exhibition includes geometric paintings from the 1960s, at once deeply critical of and deeply informed by the naturalism of the horizon and more recent examples of paintings, photographs, and objects, that reference the psychological effect of the horizon with more liberty and playfulness. |
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 Horizontal VIII Morris Louis Bernard Jacobson Gallery |
 Untitled Blinky Palermo Zwirner & Wirth |
 Untitled Myron Stout Joan T. Washburn Gallery |
 Blue/Yellow/Red(Untitled) Ellsworth Kelly Kass/Meridian |
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 Untitled Press #2 Brice Marden Works on Paper, Inc.; WP Editions |
 Untitled Gerhard Richter Galerie Clara Maria Sels |
 Sky, Galaxy, Desert and Ocean Vija Celmins Jeffrey Fuller Fine Art, Ltd. |
 North America Divided Neil Jenney Anne Plumb Fine Art |
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 Bay of Biscay, Bakio (from Time Exposed) Hiroshi Sugimoto Richard Levy Gallery |
 Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cape Brenton Island Hiroshi Sugimoto Serge Ziegler Galerie |
 10 am-SRMR Diti Almog Wetterling Gallery |
 10 am- 5 pm Diti Almog Wetterling Gallery |
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 House of Pictures (Carrera) Peter Doig Michael Werner Gallery |
 Art Horizon IV Sean Scully Galerie Jamileh Weber |
 On the Beach (Last Wave) Robert Longo Metro Pictures |
 Horizon (24) Leo Villareal Conner Contemporary Art |
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Christian Rattemeyer is curator at Artists Space in New York, and a frequent contributor to Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, and Parkett. His next exhibition Based on a True Story opens September 14, 2004 at Artists Space and runs through October 23, 2004. For more information, please visit www.artistsspace.org |
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