bureau gasser

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Klemens Gasser "Seascapes" at Tanja Grunert

tANJA gRUNERT

Klemens Gasser
Seascapes
Opening reception: Friday, June 8, 6pm to 8pm
Friday June 8 thru Friday July 13 2018

Nouchie in the sky (Trindade Petrel), 2018

oil, plants and dirt on canvas

98 X 80 Inches (249 x 203)

Tanja Grunert is pleased to announce Seascapes: an exhibition of a new series of paintings and a video installation by Klemens Gasser.

Recent paintings including seascapes, seabirds in flight, and several pieces from the artist’s ethereal Whip Paintings series come together in an organic expression of the artist’s philosophy of motion and action, longing and desire.

The title of the show, Seascapes, refers to several large and medium-scale paintings and a video installation. There is a forward-looking longing in the pieces, which are based on images and impressions viewed from a great physical distance.

In the video installation the horizon of the ocean is viewed as a chaotic roiling line through the eye of a spotting scope which films at 70 times magnification. This desire to travel great distances becomes both a bubbling emotional desire to see into the future and the wish to transverse physical space in seek of something unseen and longed for on the other side of the shimmering horizon.

Nature takes a great part in the inspiration, creation, and evolution of all of Klemens Gasser’s works. Both the Seascapes and Trindade Petrels in flight are painted without brush, but are applied by hand in a repetitive slapping motion. The richly textured paintings are done in a combination of oil paint and body latex; such as would be used for creating latex fetish-wear directly on the skin.

The slapping motions of Klemens Gasser's paintings echo his Whip Paintings, minimalist works which record traces of the violence used to create them. While unable to record the force of wing beats, the crashing of waves, or the crack of the whip breaking the sound barrier, Klemens Gasser focuses on the traces and impressions left by highly symbolic elements representing motion/emotion, creation/evolution/decay, emotional/physical longing.

Whip Painting Process Video

Imprints of energy become records of time—the past and the future, both equally traceless in the flight of a bird, the crash of the surf, or the arch of a whip. A hand slapping paint on a canvas can be a wing beat that allows the body to soar across space, surf a wave to a physical destination or emotional high, or follow the lash of the whip to a lover’s body.

Each piece is unique yet intertwined, created and left to evolve in Klemens Gasser's plein air studio in Brooklyn. The whole tells a story in which each piece is an actor, and without interaction and conversation is not whole.

Anouche Wise

524 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 646.944.6197 tanja@tanjagrunert.com

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Friday, October 13, 2017

Todd Colby - I Will Not Be Coming Into Work Today - opens today Friday October 13th 18.00 to 20.00

Todd Colby

I Will Not Be Coming Into Work Today

Bureau Gasser

Friday 10/13 to Saturday10/14

Opening Friday October 13, 6am-8pm

Artist, poet, and performer Todd Colby will be showing his recent paintings and works on paper at Bureau Gasser for one day only on Friday, October 13 from 10am-8pm with an opening reception from 6pm-8pm. Colby's 11" x 14" paintings are gestural, visceral, and chromatically electric. Colby veers masterfully from abstraction to figuration and often includes words and phrases in his paintingsthat serve as both captions and commands. This will be Colby's third solo show of his art and his first at Bureau Gasser.

Todd Colby has published six books of poetry. Most recently, he is the author of Splash State (The Song Cave, 2014), and Flushing Meadows (Scary Topiary Press, 2012). His earlier books include: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all published by Soft Skull Press. His work has been broadcast nationally on PBS, NPR, Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, and KCRW’s Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt. He was the lead singer for the critically acclaimed band Drunken Boat. Todd is a frequent collaborator with artist Marianne Vitale, and the art collective Kunstverein. His books and paintings with the artist David Lantow can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art special collections libraries and Picture Room in Brooklyn, NY. Colby has given readings at Maison de la Poesie (Paris), Oxfam Books (London), The Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles), The Public Theater, Performa 13, The Poetry Project, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Rubin Museum, New York University, The New School for Social Research, OMI Arts Center, Brooklyn Public Library, Cornell University, Dia Foundation, MoMA PS1, PS 122, and more.