Nicola
López: Un-Building Things
at Pace
Prints, 57th Street, New York City
Apr 30,
2013 - Apr 30, 2016
Pace Prints
is pleased to announce the opening of a long-term site-specific installation by
Nicola López at the recently inaugurated Balcony Lounge at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Entitled Un-Building Things, the work is the first commission
for the lounge and will be on view for three years.
Associate
Curator of Prints and Drawings Samantha Rippner calls López "one of the
most innovative printmakers working today." Continuing her practice of
using printmaking in unexpected and unusual ways, López created Un-Building
Things using linocut and monoprinting techniques on top of mylar forms that
were laser-cut from hand-drawn stencils. The elements of the piece were printed
and assembled by López, in collaboration with Pace Editions' printers, over the
course of two months, then installed on-site in the Balcony Lounge by the
artist.
In its
final form, the piece begins as individually framed panels which evolve across
the 50-foot space into a fractured constellation of architectural elements. As
it progresses the elements transform into primary shapes that expand beyond the
limits of frame and picture plane. The frames themselves also progressively
break apart, and their parts become independent structures. This
"un-building" reverses not only the construction of the architectural
images, but also the art-making process itself. Complex forms and relationships
dissolve into their core components, becoming at once completely individual but
also more universal. López says: "What I'm interested in constructing is a
landscape that does not have a specific geographic location, but that relates
in its non-specificity to our contemporary urban world."
Located
adjacent to the Great Hall Balcony, the Balcony Lounge is open to Metropolitan
Museum of Art members at the Sustaining level and above.
Also on
view through June 8 at Pace Prints, 521 West 26th Street, is Nicola López: Land
of Illusion, an exhibition of López's new editioned and unique prints.
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