DANIEL BUREN

In his over 50-year career, Daniel Buren is best known for his use of contrasting stripes as a visual tool that reveals the specific features and dimensions of a site, often transforming the environment for which it was specifically designed. He alters the perception and context of one’s surroundings by modifying the navigation of space, enhancing lighting, obstructing viewpoints, and highlighting certain architectural features. Buren constructs his work—much of which is temporary—in the architecture of both public and private spaces ranging from subway platforms to museums.
Work in situ – “denotes a work made for a particular site, for a particular time and exhibited in this particular site, and therefore not transportable to another place.” Buren has also identified himself as an artist who “lives and works in situ.” Situated work – “a work for the most part inspired by a particular location, but made with the intention that the very same elements of the original work can be reinstalled in different sites following a series of rules, changing each time in response to the given place. In turn, the site is changed by the work.”
Visual tool – the sign of white and color alternating stripes of exactly 8.7 cm. in width, as derived from the fabric he first used as a canvas in 1965. This functions as a tool in Buren’s work, as a standard or unit of measure of formal properties. Significantly, it is also an intended sign that serves as a constant within the wildly variable parameters and juxtapositions of any and all in situ and situated work since 1965 without exception.

Exhibition runs through to June 24th, 2017

Bortolami Gallery
39 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

bortolamigallery.com

ANDREA ZITTEL

Furthering her core investigation of structures that shape our reality fields, Andrea Zittel mines simultaneous sites of gallery and landscape to activate a specific, continued exploration of the vertical plane. Coalescing recent manifestations of two distinct, yet interrelated bodies of work—Planar Configurations and Planar Pavilions—this two-part exhibition embodies Zittel’s evolving symbiosis between art object and active living environment, and inaugurates the artist’s newest permanent public installation in Joshua Tree, California.

Organized in linear sequences within the main gallery, Zittel’s three variations of Planar Configurations take on more intimate physical and psychological space. Whereas previous variants emphasized the hierarchy and functionality of active horizontal planes, and the division of larger spaces into specific supportive environments, these sculptures turn our focus inwards, establishing private rooms or containers nested by corners. Together, the repeated forms accumulate in groupings of two, three, and four identical sculptures in parallel succession. Intimating office cubicles, motel rooms, or restaurant booths, they are both autonomous and contingent on one another, creating and completing suggested spaces by the nature of their proximity.

Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2017

Regen Projects
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.regenprojects.com