MATTHEW SCHREIBER – SIDESHOW
2014-04-28Johannes Vogt Gallery is pleased to announce Sideshow, the first New York solo exhibition by Matthew Schreiber. Schreiber’s main practice centers around the use of fluorescent lights and laser diode modules. Sideshow spans across both exhibitionspaces of the gallery and combines works across varying mediums including light sculptures, holography, photography, and an immersive architectural intervention that will take over the entire rear gallery. Sideshow is the most invasive project by the gallery to date.
Schreiber’s use of contemporary technology engages a conversation with ideas of the esoteric, superstition and the occult. His practice pits the active image of the past against today’s screen-based image culture of slick and banal immediacy. Tipping his hat to modern subculture’s affinity to immersive techno-spaces, the exhibition’s title subtly references the “Fun House”, a massive nightclub that occupied parts of the gallery’s building complex during the 1980’s.
The exhibition’s centerpiece, GateKeeper, is a site-specific laser installation that engages wall drawing and artificial fog in a blacked-out enclosed room. The resulting work is an immersive environment enveloping the viewer in a wash of immaterial geometric forms. Constrained only by the building’s architecture the lasers physically and ideologically point outwards towards infinity.
Opposite – GateKeeper, 2014
Exhibition runs through to May 10th, 2014
Johannes Vogt Gallery
526 W 26th Street, #205
New York
NY
10001
