#prototypology

The exhibition includes new works and archival material from Michael Heizer, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, and Robert Therrien, among other artists. Studies for sculptures by Dan Graham, Claes Oldenburg, Tatiana Trouvé, and Rachel Whiteread reveal moments of process that lead to epiphanies. Monumental, civic, everyday, and otherworldly gestures are visible in a range of preparatory drawings and proposals. __________ Image: "Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation," installation view. Photo by Matteo D'Eletto

January 22, 2015 NOW: THE POSSIBILITY OF A TREE FRACKING On Albert Oehlen's new Untitled work In the installation of a new work in the exhibition “Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation” at Gagosian Gallery Rome, Albert Oehlen adds understanding to the nature of his own hermetic workings and longstanding use of the tree as motif. Press play. One hundred and twenty-two beats per minute pump through a speaker, each thump emitting a flash from a standard-issue torch. An awkward and nearly incoherent layer of sound plays on top, using and losing the beat with the screech of a violin, a muttering snare and the seemingly blind clamoring of electronic organ keys. The rhythm seems to sync and fall out of step in almost the same instant, tricking you into thinking you’ve got the beat like that dissociative moment at the club when your mind and your body tell awkwardly different stories. Since the 1980s Albert Oehlen has used the tree as a structural device to help inspire his brush, creating a dance between the spasmodic organic, and the controlled line within nests of marks, branches, webs and knots. Being one of the earliest to employ the stuttered tracks of a computer mouse, the artist immediately sensed that the then-young digital medium contained its own language of hand-eye vocabulary extended through the rickety pixel. It seemed natural to add and combine these features to his vocabulary in a quest for forms and markings counter-intuitive to standard notions of beauty or craft, and forever reshaping our considerations of harmony. READ MORE...

“Prototypology” is opening right now at Gagosian Gallery Rome. The reception ends at 8pm CET.

“Prototypology” opens tomorrow, January 14th, 6–8pm CET at Gagosian Rome. The exhibition includes new works and archival material from Michael Heizer, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, and Robert Therrien, among other artists. Studies for sculptures by Dan Graham, Claes Oldenburg, Tatiana Trouvé, and Rachel Whiteread reveal moments of process that lead to epiphanies. Monumental, civic, everyday, and otherworldly gestures are visible in a range of preparatory drawings and proposals. __________ Image: Rachel Whiteread, Trafalgar Square Project, 1998, photographic collage and acrylic on museum board, 19 11/16 × 12 3/8 inches (50 × 31.5 cm)

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