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APOPHASIS" width="600" height="393"/> December 1, 2012 - January 20, 2013 Reception Saturday, December 1, 2012 6 - 8PM Swarm Gallery is pleased to present “Apohasis”, an exhibition of new work by Taro Hattori, on view from December 1, 2012 to January 20, 2013. James Sansing presents an installation, “Remdiation”, in the project space. “Apophasis” includes a series of new sculptural and photographic works that explore dominant yet elusive power structures in society. Using psychology, theater, craftmanship, and history as general themes and operations in his work, Hattori creates an iconic, destructive object and reproduces it as a skeletal structure of itself. Using flimsy, temporary, and mundane materials, Hattori seeks to dually reflect our dependency on a destructive system that is invisible to us. “Apophasis” is composed around a central project titled “Penetration.” In this project, the sculptures are placed to create conceptual tension. In previous work, Hattori created a series of M-16 rifles out of plexi-glass. The rifles, which were all scaled to size and representational of the actual weapon, were in fact, non-operational; to hold one was only an illusion of power. James Sansing brings major themes like fragility, abstraction, scale, and weight into his work. The site-specific installation in the project space, titled “Remediation”, is a sculpture that explores the balance between several dichotomies: natural and artificial, heavy and fragile, abstract and narrative, movement and stasis. The overall form of the sculpture is abstract, and created with rough and heavy materials like cement and brick. The details of the sculpture evoke a narrative, and contain elements that are incredibly fragile. There is an interconntectedness of the pieces that hang from the ceiling, yet brick columns preclude the pieces’ ability to move freely. Sansing’s previous work includes melancholic films, black cement paintings, and atmospheric photographs. The new work at Swarm is an exciting return to Sansing’s abstracted miniatures.
James Sansing is a bay area native. His work has been shown locally at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ampersand International Arts, Mark Wolfe Contemporary as well as various international venues. Sansing has won awards and residencies from the San Francisco Dump, Kala Art Institute, and Headlands Center for the Arts. He received both his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. |
