Terence Koh
19 Jan - 27 May 2007
Terrence Koh
Untitled, 2006
Paint, artist's sweat, on mirror.
68 x 36 in. (172.7 x 91.4 cm).
Collection of the artist, courtesy Peres Projects, Los Angeles, Berlin
Untitled, 2006
Paint, artist's sweat, on mirror.
68 x 36 in. (172.7 x 91.4 cm).
Collection of the artist, courtesy Peres Projects, Los Angeles, Berlin
Terence Koh
January 19, 2007 - May 27, 2007
For his first solo museum show in the United States, Terence Koh is creating a new installation for the Whitney's Lobby Gallery. In Koh's immersive, typically monochromatic environments -- in which minimalist and baroque aspects of his sensibility vie for dominance -- a seemingly unknown ritual is about to take place, where a sense of loss simultaneously suggests regeneration. From drifting powder silencing rooms, and constellations of cryptically linked objects that move from literally disjunctive realms (upstairs/downstairs, inside/outside, dark/light) as well as more conceptual ones, to pristine, perfectly crafted containers that become coffins for shattered glass and mirror, the glitter of black beads, burnt objects, residing within -- Koh's gestures evoke isolation and secrecy, but also protection and ecstasy.
Image:
Terence Koh
Untitled, 2006
Paint, artist's sweat, on mirror, 68 x 36 in. (172.7 x 91.4 cm).
January 19, 2007 - May 27, 2007
For his first solo museum show in the United States, Terence Koh is creating a new installation for the Whitney's Lobby Gallery. In Koh's immersive, typically monochromatic environments -- in which minimalist and baroque aspects of his sensibility vie for dominance -- a seemingly unknown ritual is about to take place, where a sense of loss simultaneously suggests regeneration. From drifting powder silencing rooms, and constellations of cryptically linked objects that move from literally disjunctive realms (upstairs/downstairs, inside/outside, dark/light) as well as more conceptual ones, to pristine, perfectly crafted containers that become coffins for shattered glass and mirror, the glitter of black beads, burnt objects, residing within -- Koh's gestures evoke isolation and secrecy, but also protection and ecstasy.
Image:
Terence Koh
Untitled, 2006
Paint, artist's sweat, on mirror, 68 x 36 in. (172.7 x 91.4 cm).