MIGUEL ÁNGEL CÁRDENAS
2016-12-26For his first solo exhibition in Chicago, Brendan Fernandes will continue his ongoing exploration into the physical act of falling through new works in glass sculpture, installation, photography and performance, offering an extended metaphor for contemporary queer politics. Beginning with an opening night performance, Fernandes will take over the entire gallery, including a timely new installation piece as part of the gallery’s on the wall exhibition space: forty-nine handmade crystal coat hangers, symbolizing the forty-nine victims of the Orlando massacre. This project will continue inside the gallery, along with new blown glass sculptures evoking ghostly bodies, created during his recent residency at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. Unique photographic compositions comprising dancers’ limbs and African artifacts printed using the chine-collé method will accompany the sculptures. Presented together, these bodies of work will illuminate Fernandes’ ongoing occupation with the falling form, suggesting contemporary notions of desire and loss through bodily movement.
Opposite – Green and yellow lovers, 1964
Exhibition runs through to February 4th, 2017
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York
