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Blair Thurman
柏林, 2015年11月14日 - 12月19日

Blair Thurman

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新闻稿
Peres Projects is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with American artist Blair Thurman (b.1961, US). On view at the gallery are Thurman's recent paintings and neon sculptures. Thurman's practice connects diverse cultural and symbolic facets of Americana with Pop Art and abstract geometric art of the 50s and 60s.
 
Drawing on influences such as his passionate collecting of model cars and other personal imagery, Thurman's shaped canvases exist on the periphery of both painting and sculpture simultaneously. As abstractions of found forms, his works conjure both the circuit and the winding road through their smooth inner curves and edges. As cutouts, Thurman's paintings incorporate the surrounding wall, bringing negative space into focus as a compositional element.
 
The neon works pose as inverted reliefs of the paintings as they cut similar edges and familiar tracks. Recalling historic associations of neon, from bar signage to Minimalist and Conceptual art, these glowing reliefs create new outlines, altering the dimensionality of painting itself through the electrical circuit. The circularity that pervades Thurman's practice, referencing both Nietzsche's idea of "eternal return" or a Möbius strip, elicits the infinite quality of these serializing compositions, which affirm and flow into themselves.
 
Though spanning different media and forms, Thurman's serial works are readily recognizable as his own. His unique method of abstraction incorporates the handcrafted, replete with imperfections and improvisation, arriving at, in Thurman's words, "signature-content". Associations of speed, highway interchanges, and the glowing neon of mass media advertisements imbue Thurman's compositions with kinetic energy and familiarity. However, ultimately, the content is neither Thurman's distilled cultural signifiers nor abstracted motifs, it is rather his lifelong interest in excavating the potential in painting and sculpture.
 
"His method is gaze and memory rather than cold analysis," wrote Thurman's late friend, American artist Steve Parrino, "… like the free associations of a Beat poet on the road[…]". A signature, something of a particular hand and created through repetition, is perhaps the most succinct metaphor for Thurman's practice.
 
Installation Shots
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Blair Thurman Installation View November 14 – December 19, 2015 Peres Projects, Berlin
报道
  • Installation view of Blair Thurman's exhibition at Peres Projects, Berlin (2015)

    Exhibition: Blair Thurman at Peres Projects

    Alice Bardos, Berlin Art Link, 2015年11月25日
  • Installation view of Blair Thurman's exhibition at Peres Projects, Berlin (2015)

    Raw refinement: Blair Thurman’s debut show at Peres Projects, Berlin

    Yoko Choy, Wallpaper, 2015年11月18日

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