The exhibition charts the possibilities of contemporary sculpture, from the conceptual and diagrammatic, to the almost-figurative. Geary Contemporary will present the work of Sun You, Pooneh Maghazehe, Russell Maltz, and William Corwin in their new expanded gallery spaces in Salisbury Ct. The exhibition’s title is drawn from the short story by Will Heinrich, who has envisioned a series of stories inspired by artist’s works. In this story he recreates an evolutionary process—think the first sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”—in which a humanoid creature comprehends tools, memory, beauty and utility, and begins to produce art. Conceptual sculpture is never without its visual and aesthetic aspect, and abstract and figurative sculpture will always have one foot in conceptual considerations, you can never exclude any of these ideas no matter how hard you try.
Geary will exhibit the works in dialog with each other allowing the viewer to juxtapose the simple inevitability of the geometries of Russell Maltz’ wall and floor-based installations with the writhing viscerality of Pooneh Maghazehe’s composite objects, and the light and colorful yet subtly dangerous assemblages of Sun You with the heavy, brooding cast-iron Art-Brut symbolic objects of William Corwin. Heinrich’s story will act as a primer for the show, as he attempts to follow (in a fictionalized interpretation) the line of reasoning that evolves into each sculptural subgenre.