Frieze NY Special: 6 artists creating new spaces
‘Space Odyssey? (2019) by Etienne Rey
Space in the hands of today?s artists means not just making sculpture but also whole physical or digital environments that the spectator experiences. Clint McLean selects six explorers of these new worlds
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JULIE MEHRETU
Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu?s abstract paintings compress space and time to reveal imaginary places birthed from unrecognizable but real locations. The artist layers her distinctive markings with architectural drawings, maps, drafts and plans to create the ?in-between psychological spaces,? as she refers to them. The paintings are a storm of simultaneous perspectives rendered in pencil, ink and paint and are at times monumental in size. Follow LUX on Instagram: the.official.lux.magazine
‘Hineni (E. 3:4)? (2018) by Julie Mehretu
KLAUS PINTER
The largest installations of Austrian artist Klaus Pinter don?t just occupy space, they dominate it. The buoyant airships and ornaments are often translucent and, though enormous, have a lightness and playfulness to them. The two giant balls that constitute Rebonds, which was installed at the Paris Panthe?on in 2010, turned the space into a Cubist dream by creating a warped and translucent simulacrum of the architecture it inhabited.
?Rebonds? (2010) by Klaus Pinter
ETIENNE REY
The installations by French artist Etienne Rey confuse our sense of space through light, movement and reflection. Works like the semi- reflec...
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