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SUMMARY:Behind the Bedroom Door
DESCRIPTION:James Cohan is pleased to present Behind the Bedroom Door\, a group exhibition that explores the private realms where intimacy and solitude share space with the inner life of dreams and fantasies. The exhibition features historical and contemporary artists working across painting\, photography\, sculpture\, video and sound to plumb the depths of the unconscious\, uncover hidden dimensions\, and explore mythology and transformation. Behind the Bedroom Door will be on view at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street and 291 Grand Street locations from January 10 through February 8\, 2025. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday\, January 10\, from 4-6 PM at 291 Grand Street and 6-8 PM at 48 Walker Street.\nIn Behind the Bedroom Door\, interior scenes serve as portals to inner landscapes. Depictions of doors serve as potent symbols of opening and closing: a threshold we pause before\, the challenge we transcend\, an entryway into new possibilities. In Christian Marclay’s sound installation\, the viewer hears an escalating lovers’ quarrel emanating from behind a shut door\, which reconciles into sounds of their love making. Paintings by Yvonne Jacquette and Margaux Williamson conflate real and imagined spaces with their unsettling perspective and soft focus\, while Charlotte Edey’s mixed media work features undulating architectures that shimmer with movement.\nIn the liminal space of the bedroom\, artists depict private moments of loneliness\, isolation and intimacy. In photographs by Diane Arbus and Robert Mapplethorpe\, subjects pose for the camera with contrasting attitudes\nof vulnerability and defiance. Lee Friedlander allows us only a glimpse of his subject through the reflection in\nthe mirror. In Sophie Calle’s 1979 social experiment\, a stranger spends a night alone in the artist’s bed\, unsettled by the usurpation of assumed narratives\, while Zanele Muholi’s self-portrait shows the artist in a state of solitary rest. A scene of lovers caressing by Lisa Yuskavage offers a window into one of the most private moments of a couple’s life together. \nIn other works on view\, truncated bodies variously express desire and the poles of toughness and fragility. Under the male gaze\, Eric Fischl’s painting of an idealized female figure bathed in light\, arms raised and hidden in shadow\, renders the headless body an object of fantasy. Conversely\, Alison Elizabeth Taylor employs the female gaze to subvert the classic erotic subject of Corbet’s L’Origine du Monde\, instead pointing to the reality of a woman’s life with her scars from childbirth. Taking a different approach to the female gaze\, Sally Mann’s murky\, wet-collodian photographs of her naked husband are at once unguarded and dreamlike. \nThe mythological becomes a setting from which to explore fantasy and eroticism. For artists from past eras like\nthe Old Master Artus Wolffort\, biblical stories provided the only acceptable subject matter in which to paint the\nfemale nude. Esther in the Women’s House of Ahasuerus is a bawdy scene of uncomfortable intimacy where men bathe women\, who gaze furtively out of the scene\, as if pleading for deliverance. Contemporary painter Jesse Mockrin challenges the canon by depicting a woman who\, whether in a state of self-pleasure or ravishment\, is entirely self- contained. Naudline Pierre’s ecstatic scene of transformation represents an evolution of the self–the female form escaping from her earthly existence into the luminous unknown. \nAs Swiss psychologist CG Jung describes\, night is the realm when we “produce symbols unconsciously and spontaneously\, in the form of dreams” in response to our daily realities. Artists\, as image makers\, conjure impressions from the dreamworld to bring the unconscious into the light. Alexandria Couch’s dreamer falls through the ceiling onto a bed that is at once inside and outside\, while nearby spirits hover upside down\, engulfed in flames. Enrique Martinez Celaya creates a dreamscape of light and shadow\, an illuminated doorway beckoning above\, while the viewer feels trapped in the darkness below by a menacing battleship straddling the threshold. Cardiff Miller’s sound piece examines the wonderment of dreams’ formation\, as explained from a child’s imagination. Brandon Ndife crafts an uncanny bedside table\, which morphs into the realm of hallucination in the halflight of awakening. \nArtists are like alchemists\, they transform their inner lives into intuitive\, mythopoetic scenes. For many\,\nincluding Jane Corrigan\, Dana Sherwood\, and Elizabeth Glaessner\, making is a process of inquiry. The artist\nbegins without a clear image in mind\, trusting their not-knowing to bring about images filled with mystery that\nspeak to deeper truths beyond what words can describe. \nPlay takes turns with nightmares in an exploration of the human psyche. In a visual game\, Tom Burkhardt’s Book Page series channels Rorschach inkblots in chance encounters with language. Marlene Dumas explores gendered role play in her deck of cards\, while Hugh Steer’s touching scene of drag depicts loving tenderness between two men. Ghosts and spirits hover in a scene of displacement in Yun Fei Ji’s painting and Jenny Morgan’s woodlands feel haunted by darker forces. Transforming trauma into art\, Tecla Tofano creates sculptures of a bed in clay\, to explore her experience of fear and violence in 20th century Venezuela. The exhibition takes a humorous turn in the surreal video by Martin Kersels in which the artist and a young girl navigate a teenager’s gyrating pink bedroom. \nBehind the Bedroom Door features works by Diane Arbus\, Pierre Bonnard\, Sophie Calle\, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller\, Enrique Martinez Celaya\, Jane Corrigan\, Alexandria Couch\, Marlene Dumas\, Charlotte Edey\, Eric Fischl\, Louis Fratino\, Lee Friedlander\, Elizabeth Glaessner\, Sheila Hicks\, Yvonne Jacquette\, Yun-Fei Ji\, Martin Kersels\, Mernet Larsen\, Robert Mapplethorpe\, Christian Marclay\, Jesse Mockrin\, Jenny Morgan\,\nZanele Muholi\, Brandon Ndife\, Nicholas Nixon\, Naudline Pierre\, Dana Sherwood\, Yinka Shonibare CBE\,\nHugh Steers\, Alison Elizabeth Taylor\, Tecla Tofano\, Edouard Vuillard\, Margaux Williamson\, Artus Wolffort\nand Lisa Yuskavage. \nFor inquiries regarding Behind the Bedroom Door\, please contact Jane Cohan at jane@jamescohan.com or\n212.714.9500. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Sarah Stengel at sstengel@jamescohan.com or 212.714.9500.
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LOCATION:48 Walker Street\, 48 Walker St\, New York City\, 10013\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mestre Didi
DESCRIPTION:James Cohan is pleased to present Mestre Didi\, an exhibition of twelve totemic multimedia sculptures by the late Brazilian artist\, Mestre Didi (Salvador\, Bahia\, 1917-2013)\, on view at 291 Grand Street from September 3 through October 26\, 2024. This exhibition is made in collaboration with Simōes de Assis. \nDeoscóredes Maximiliano dos Santos\, better known as Mestre Didi (Master Didi)\, was an influential Afro-Brazilian artist\, spiritual leader\, and writer. Didi’s singular oeuvre is closely linked to the Candomblé universe\, a West African diasporic religion that developed in Brazil as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and with which Didi maintained a profound and generative relationship throughout his life. Followers of Candomblé believe in a pantheon of gods\, known as Orixás\, ancestral figures imbued with the divine energy of nature that mediate between the human and the Supreme. \nDidi’s sculptures\, made predominantly from organic materials such as palm fronds\, painted leather\, cowrie shells\, and colored beads\, are direct heirs to the traditional art and liturgical objects of the Candomblé\, as well as symbolic representations of these ancestral entities. Elements from the Yoruba imaginary and other West African visual cultures\, such as birds\, snakes\, spears\, and flames\, are reworked by the artist into evocative pieces that echo the deities and mythic narratives of these religions. Articulated like trees sprouting from ornate concave circular bases\, Didi’s works possess an elegant verticality and joyous gestural expression. \nDidi’s creative output\, while steeped in the spiritual and inextricably tied to his position as a high priest\, was not intended for direct religious use. Didi’s sculptures are creative interpretations and aesthetic celebrations of his cultural-spiritual practice. In Didi’s work\, the encounter between tradition and African heritage unified with the vernacular of contemporary art brings to life a semi-abstract conceptual and emotional vocabulary that fuses past and present to restore and renew life. \nMestre Didi has been featured in important solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo\, the Afro Brazil Museum\, the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art; the Oscar Niemeyer Museum\, Curitiba; the Bahia Museum of Modern Art\, Salvador; the National Historical Museum and the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art\, in addition to being featured in the Bahia Biennial and the 23rd São Paulo Biennial. Abroad\, he has exhibited in Valencia\, Milan\, Frankfurt\, London\, Paris\, Accra\, Dakar\, Miami\, New York and Washington. His works are featured in prominent institutional collections\, including the Bahia Museum of Modern Art\, the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art\, and the São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Art.
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LOCATION:291 Grand st\, 291 Grand Street\, New York\, 10002
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