 Tunnel, 2005 acrylic ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches Justin Lieberman Time and Money "Even a broken watch tells the correct time twice a day" (Justin Lieberman). Sutton Lane is pleased to announce "Time and Money" (little slips of paper that float in and out of my life) the first solo exhibition of New York-based artist Justin Lieberman. This installation is composed of sculptures, collages and works on paper, which will occupy both spaces of the gallery. It deals with diverse topics such as art and advertisement, the passage of time, memory and premonition, the cultural origins of the calendar vortex, the cult of authenticity, teenage counterfeiters and the popular cartoonist Gary Larson. The subjects are linked both spatially and by way of a network of rhetorical and visual associations, such as equivalency, narrative, and analogy, in which pairs are likened through their relationship to one another. However these methods of interpretation can be deceptive within Lieberman's oeuvre. As the artist leads us through an understanding of the work as a critique of culture, wildly improbable conflations begin to seem quite reasonable within the game-like structure of the exhibition. But his art is more than just playing games with cultural tropes. Lieberman says: "Art must bear some relationship to real lived everyday experience". And with this he invokes the words of Georges Bataille about poetry: "... starting from the moment when this unreality immediately constitutes itself as a superior reality, whose mission is to eliminate (or degrade) inferior vulgar reality, poetry is reduced to playing the standard role of things..." (Georges Bataille: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939). Justin Lieberman was born in 1977, lives and works in New York. He graduate in 2004 from Yale University and had his first solo exhibition at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York in October 2004. Exhibition: 23 March - 23 April 2005 Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri 10 am - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 4.30 pm Sutton Lane 1 Sutton Lane UK-London, EC1M 5PU Telephone +44 (0) 20 7253 8580 Fax +44 (0) 20 7253 6580 Email info@suttonlane.com www.suttonlane.com |
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