 You got rid of me and I got rid of you, 2008 detail Yuri Masnyj Anxiety Times Sutton Lane is pleased to announce "Anxiety Times" by Yuri Masnyj. The exhibition, comprising a large scale installation and drawings, is the second solo exhibition of the artist's work in London. The centre piece of the exhibition is Masnyj's hybrid like sculpture, an assemblage of off-kilter constructivist like planes and hand painted objects. The surrounding drawings present a series of vignettes which directly relate to the language of the sculpture. The invented rooms are empty frameworks within which objects accumulate as props or performers. Recurring motifs such as imaginary books, cigarettes, modernist furniture and origami represent a personal past and present. Re-crafting an ordinary tape cassette from wood, an eraser tipped pencil from a painted dowel or a tablecloth from cardboard; Masnyj's objects are an uncanny approximation, retaining only the semblance of their original. It is this predilection for things devoid of life, the "still life" that paradoxically brings the very life to Masnyj's frozen artefacts. Yuri Masnyj was born in Washington D.C. He currently lives and works in New York. His work was included in "International Paper" at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the 2005 Greater New York show at PS 1, and the Whitney Biennial, 2006. Exhibition: 1 March - 5 April 2008 Gallery Hours: Tues-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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