De Chiara
Gallery
Snow
Tunnel, 2001. Cibachrome mounted on aluminum, 50" x 50"
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Donna
Nield: Circluator
March 22 - April 20, 2002
Opening: Friday, March 22, 6 - 8 p.m.
De Chiara Gallery
521 West 26th Street,
New York, NY 10001
t.212.967.6007
f.212.967.1604
office@dechiaragallery.com
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De Chiara Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Circulator, a
solo exhibition of new work by New York-based Canadian artist Donna
Nield. The exhibition creates an elusive and whimsical dialogue between
public nature and composed architecture.
Snow Tunnel, a photograph of a tunnel Nield dug in the snow, creates a
pathway that leads anywhere. The raw material of nature is shaped by the
artist to form a ludicrously pure gesture -- an infinite tunnel. The
photograph oscillates between two and three dimensions, between
permanence and the ephemeral.
Playing with geometric forms and modern aesthetics, the 12 sections of
Modular Tunnel can be arranged and rearranged to create multiple
aboveground pathways. Designed to form a closed unit when placed in a
circular configuration, Modular Tunnel can also be reconfigured to
create a tunnel-path that can be entered by the viewer. Here the tunnel
takes the viewer on a disorienting trip through the gallery.
The idea of circular travel continues in Whole World, a video that goes
on an abstract looping trip around an idealized grassy surface of the
earth. On a journey that goes nowhere and everywhere, the earth is
objectified into a distilled surface with no entrance or exit.
Nields Potted Trees are full-scale foam models of the large potted
trees found in public/corporate spaces. On a giant scale within the
gallery space, these soft white sculptures seem ghost-like and looming.
Awkwardly crammed into the gallery space, these normally invisible
objects become provocatively present.
For more information go to: http://www.e-flux.com/site2002/index.phtml?client=welcome/dechiara
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