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There’s a moment when you first see See bei Tag oder Die andere Seite (Loosely, “The Other Side of the Lake”), the largest work in Closer Look, our second solo exhibition with Austrian painter Eiko G. In this moment, the work’s subject cannot be determined; the eye is lost in a large expanse of cerulean blue, seeking, parsing, straining to make familiar forms out of smears and splotches. Those forms include ripples in the water’s surface that might be limbs, creatures, or nothing at all, an outcropping of buildings, outlined but not filled-in, perched delicately at the lake’s edge, rolling hills that seem to be composed of celluloid, combusting in a film projector, and a hovering periwinkle cloud, more phantom than ordinary cumulus. In this pre-recognition moment, we understand we are facing something familiar, something that represents a concrete place, yet, we are full of doubt. This is the moment Eiko seeks to expand, to turn from a split-second flash into an ocean…
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There’s a moment when you first see See bei Tag oder Die andere Seite (Loosely, “The Other Side of the Lake”), the largest work in Closer Look, our second solo exhibition with Austrian painter Eiko G. In this moment, the work’s subject cannot be determined; the eye is lost in a large expanse of cerulean blue, seeking, parsing, straining to make familiar forms out of smears and splotches. Those forms include ripples in the water’s surface that might be limbs, creatures, or nothing at all, an outcropping of buildings, outlined but not filled-in, perched delicately at the lake’s edge, rolling hills that seem to be composed of celluloid, combusting in a film projector, and a hovering periwinkle cloud, more phantom than ordinary cumulus. In this pre-recognition moment, we understand we are facing something familiar, something that represents a concrete place, yet, we are full of doubt. This is the moment Eiko seeks to expand, to turn from a split-second flash into an ocean…
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