Gavin Brown's enterprise presents Ignorant Transparencies, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the New York-based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard. Experience Melgaard’s pieces at the gallery from September 14th to October 26th. open from 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday
From the press release:
Like his Pepto-Bismol-hued alter ego, the Pink Panther (a perfect embodiment of the Norwegian’s ongoing berzerking of aesthetic cancellation), Melgaard is simultaneously the fearsome predator and also the uncool loser – don’t forget that relentless erzatz-jazz theme tune to accompany this vision of the horrifying loneliness of our existence. Melgaard makes a perversion not only of the notion of an artist, but also the artist’s relationship with the physical ‘natural’ world – in his hands now an irrelevance, invisible and grotesque. In Melgaard we find complete alienation and extreme asymmetry.
Melgaard’s starkly anti-aesthetic and anti-formalist art offers a new, more complicated, last-chance idea of beauty, one always on the precipice of breakdown and shame. In a crescendo of paint, dolls and crystals, at Gavin Brown’s enterprise Melgaard will present his most ambitious, tragic and unwieldy exhibition to date – Pink never felt so dismal.
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