Grigely: Remains

At the gallery Air de Paris, American artist Joseph Grigely presents Remains, a solo exhibition featuring a series of remains from daily life that are unmade and remade, becoming reified extensions of their previous reality.

At the Parisian gallery Air de Paris, American artist Joseph Grigely is presenting Remains, a solo exhibition featuring a series of remains from daily life — a scrap of discarded paper, a pair of upside-down buckets, an empty storage rack, a photograph of someone singing from the New York Times — that are unmade and remade, becoming reified extensions of their previous reality.

In these objects, captions have been removed; colors have been changed; wood and cast iron have been replaced with crystal urethane. They were once useful objects — the papers carried conversations, the buckets carried paint, the stove produced heat, the storage rack held paintings, the newspaper conveyed timely information — but now their usefulness has transpired into a sort of uselessness; they have become, like the elements of classical still-life paintings, a part of a world ignored.

Through 1 December 2012
Joseph Grigely: Remains
Air de Paris Gallery
32 rue Louise Weiss, Paris
On top and above: works on writing by Joseph Griegly
On top and above: works on writing by Joseph Griegly
<i>Song without words</i>, Joseph Grigely
Song without words, Joseph Grigely

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