TANGIBLE REALITIES: Idealized Landscapes of Life Experience August 5, 2011

Adam Fischer and Drew Hertel take over Fivepoints Arthouse with a show that begins with an opening reception on August 5th and runs through August 27th.

Drawing on Situationists’ happenings, bookmaking history, and traditional Japanese printmaking, Tangible Realities seeks to bridge the gap between fine art as object and life experience as artistic expression. By shifting the focus from the direct imagery towards meditation, Tangible Realities will explore psychological spaces derived from memories, processes and time of past journeys. Collected memories manifest as objects of nostalgia for relationships, journeys etc. as part of an attempt at compartmentalizing grandiose notions about the relationship between conscious creativity and life lived. Experience becomes the inspiration to create a painting while charging the paintings with transcendental potency. By creating spaces where a concrete, earthbound environment coexists with an abstracted, the viewer will be swept up in the essence of atmosphere.
Two large-scale installations will provide intimate settings for experiencing smaller books, paintings and prints about memory, tranquility, and a love of nature. The first, a small dwelling like structure made of found wood, complete with chair and lamp will be situated within a mountainous landscape of peaks and valleys on the walls and rocks on the floor. The second gallery will house an interactive mobile installation containing, a Polaroid mosaic and music and material collected from 8 cross-country trips.

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