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Almine Rech

Construction / Destruction Organized with Olivier Renaud-Clement

Apr 29 — Jun 6, 2015 | Paris
Inquire about the exhibition: inquiries@alminerech.com

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to announce 'Construction / Destruction', a group exhibition that brings together the work of six international artists active between the 1960s and today. Emerging from divergent contemporary trajectories across the globe, their work explores notions of destruction, construction and transformation, as forces of cyclical renewal to define the connections to, or away from, their own cultural past. The destructive tendency is crucial to the history of modern and contemporary art. However, presented here, these acts are no more violent than they are transformational, looking to develop dynamic visual and spatial relationships, or to construct multi-layered experiences, which engage the artist, the material and the agency of the viewer.

Together, the works of Joel Shapiro and Fernanda Gomes create a new landscape of form and meaning, which insists upon a phenomenological experience of space. Based in Rio de Janeiro, the work of Fernanda Gomes emerges from the traditions of Brazilian Constructivism and the Neo-Concrete. Created in situ, her installations reflect upon a process of discovery, assimilation and appropriation. Starkly minimal in her aesthetic approach, Gomes extracts discarded objects from the world – such as cotton thread, nails, wood, plastic bags, wire, or paintbrushes – most of which she paints the color white. Choreographing barely noticeably interventions among the gallery’s walls and physical space, her work requires extended observation as she poetically manifests fragments from the world. “The state of things on their way to disappearing appeals to me,” she explains, “they have a strange density in contrast to their precarious materiality.”[…]

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Selected artworks

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled (Red/Blue Boars), 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled (Red/Blue Boars), 2014

    Mixed media on textile
    57 x 39 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled (17th June), 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled (17th June), 2014

    Mixed media on canvas
    78 x 57 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled (Kinderwissen), 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled (Kinderwissen), 2014

    Mixed media on canvas
    111 x 57 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled (Hauptstrasse), 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled (Hauptstrasse), 2014

    Mixed media on linen
    101 x 57 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled (Jaguar), 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled (Jaguar), 2014

    Mixed media on canvas
    113 x 39,4 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled (Red/Blue Berlin), 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled (Red/Blue Berlin), 2014

    Mixed media on aluminium
    94 x 71,5 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled, 2014

    Mixed media
    17,8 x 10,8 x 0,6 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled, 2014

    Mixed media
    18,4 x 11,7 x 0,6 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled, 2014

    Mixed media
    21 x 15,2 x 1,3 cm

  • Arturo Herrera,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Arturo Herrera Untitled, 2014

    Mixed media
    21 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm

  • Jannis Kounellis,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Jannis Kounellis Untitled, 2014

    Iron, string
    200 x 180 cm

  • Jannis Kounellis,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Jannis Kounellis Untitled, 2014

    Mixed media
    100 x 69,5 x 22 cm
    39 3/8 x 27 3/8 x 8 5/8 in

  • Jannis Kounellis,                                      Untitled, 2014

    Jannis Kounellis Untitled, 2014

    Mixed media
    104 x 73,5 x 22 cm
    41 x 28 3/4 x 8 5/8 in

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Untitled, 1978

    Kishio Suga Untitled, 1978

    Wood, ink
    30 x 49,9 x 2,5 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Multiple Spaces, 2001

    Kishio Suga Multiple Spaces, 2001

    Wood, acrylic
    92 x 242 x 7 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Branching out Between Boundaries of Light, 1997

    Kishio Suga Branching out Between Boundaries of Light, 1997

    Wood, acrylic, putty
    79,7 x 63,5 x 11,4 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Enclosed Center of Structured Discrepancies, 1985

    Kishio Suga Enclosed Center of Structured Discrepancies, 1985

    Wood, paper, water-based paint
    54 x 42 x 5 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Lateral Condition, 1975

    Kishio Suga Lateral Condition, 1975

    Wood, log
    128,6 x 28,5 x 16,5 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Spatial Components of Body, 1989

    Kishio Suga Spatial Components of Body, 1989

    Wood, plywood, water-based paint
    54 x 41 x 8,5 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Halted Point, 1990

    Kishio Suga Halted Point, 1990

    Plastic, wood
    49,8 x 39 x 10 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Segmented Boundaries in Detached Progression, 2000

    Kishio Suga Segmented Boundaries in Detached Progression, 2000

    Wood, branch, paint
    99 x 33 x 16 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Perpetuity of Two Bodies, 2001

    Kishio Suga Perpetuity of Two Bodies, 2001

    Metal
    63,5 x 35,5 x 13 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Before and After an Edge, 1990

    Kishio Suga Before and After an Edge, 1990

    Wood, metal, rope
    62 x 54,5 x 6 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Verge of a Broken Boundary, 1977

    Kishio Suga Verge of a Broken Boundary, 1977

    Rubber, wood, paint, marker ink
    43,3 x 49 x 3,5 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Cultivated Space—N, 2015

    Kishio Suga Cultivated Space—N, 2015

    Cement blocks, paint, acrylic panels
    402,6 x 40,3 x 40,3 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Distant Circulation, 1990

    Kishio Suga Distant Circulation, 1990

    Wood, zinc
    42 x 41,8 x 4,6 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Interior Alignments, 2010

    Kishio Suga Interior Alignments, 2010

    Wood, water-based paint, metal
    42 x 40 x 6,7 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Sequential Spaces, 2014

    Kishio Suga Sequential Spaces, 2014

    Wood, metal, marker pen
    50 x 35,5 x 9,2 cm

  • Kishio Suga,                                      Law of Separate Entities, 1976-2015

    Kishio Suga Law of Separate Entities, 1976-2015

    Wood, glass
    51,4 x 40 x 51,4 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      Locus Rubric (black and white) I, 2011

    Adam Marnie Locus Rubric (black and white) I, 2011

    Latex paint and graphite on drywall, painted wood, wood, Plexiglas
    100,3 x 81,3 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      Locus Rubric (black and white) II, 2011

    Adam Marnie Locus Rubric (black and white) II, 2011

    Latex paint and graphite on drywall, painted wood, wood, Plexiglas
    100,3 x 81,3 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      Collateral, 2015

    Adam Marnie Collateral, 2015

    Hardwood maple, spray paint, wood putty
    160 x 7,6 x 7,6 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      Heat, 2015

    Adam Marnie Heat, 2015

    Hardwood maple, spray paint, wood putty
    160 x 7,6 x 7,6 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      The Insider, 2015

    Adam Marnie The Insider, 2015

    Hardwood maple, spray paint, wood putty
    160 x 7,6 x 7,6 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      One Displacement Obstructs the Other, 2015

    Adam Marnie One Displacement Obstructs the Other, 2015

    Hardwood maple, inkjet color print and inkjet photograph mounted on drywall, wood
    160 x 7,6 x 8,9 cm

  • Adam Marnie,                                      Elongated Vessel II, 2015

    Adam Marnie Elongated Vessel II, 2015

    Hardwood maple, Hustler magazines, scotch tape
    160 x 7,6 x 7,6 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    metal, graphit
    27 x 7 x 20 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    painted metal, yarn
    Variable dimensions

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Painted metal
    95 x 18 x 27 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Metal
    150 x 27 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Painted wood cube
    3 x 3 x 3 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Painted metal, plexiglas
    37 x 30 x 30 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Plexiglas, tennis table ball
    20 x 20 x 8 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Painted wood
    0,5 x 88 x 6 cm

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Metal
    Variable dimensions

  • Fernanda Gomes,                                      Untitled, 2015

    Fernanda Gomes Untitled, 2015

    Painted wood cube
    18 x 9 x 9 cm

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