Matt Harle's new work, seen and photographed in his Navy Yard work space. This is great stuff, roughly made but sophisticated sculptures in which a mylar scrim hides some mysterious inner structure made of paint and cut wood. Mysterious, but as Harle says, not obfuscating, since it is possible to puzzle out exactly what's inside the scrim by looking through angular holes and vertical slits on the sides.
Harle describes these screens, which slow down and confound vision, as creating a twilight-like condition of uncertainty, even under the bright lights of the gallery. Multiple associations are not just possible but inevitable--ship sails, tree branches, cellular organisms, totemic objects. Yet everything about them is considered, from a materials standpoint. This is better work than so much of what was on view in PS1's "Greater New York 2005." What's wrong with the gatekeepers? Where are they?
Beautiful work, thank you for posting it.
Thanks, L.M. I deleted some comments after this--sorry to all, not very democratic, I just don't like being lectured in a familiar way by total strangers.
This is such delicate work compared to what I've seen of his
earlier larger pieces. Really lovely.
The gatekeepers are no longer looking after anything, especially the gate, and thus are only keepers, sadly revealing their loss of the key. Harle has made many keys and from the looks of it is making the gate too.
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Matt Harle's new work, seen and photographed in his Navy Yard work space. This is great stuff, roughly made but sophisticated sculptures in which a mylar scrim hides some mysterious inner structure made of paint and cut wood. Mysterious, but as Harle says, not obfuscating, since it is possible to puzzle out exactly what's inside the scrim by looking through angular holes and vertical slits on the sides.
Harle describes these screens, which slow down and confound vision, as creating a twilight-like condition of uncertainty, even under the bright lights of the gallery. Multiple associations are not just possible but inevitable--ship sails, tree branches, cellular organisms, totemic objects. Yet everything about them is considered, from a materials standpoint. This is better work than so much of what was on view in PS1's "Greater New York 2005." What's wrong with the gatekeepers? Where are they?
- tom moody 9-25-2005 4:24 am
Beautiful work, thank you for posting it.
- L.M. 9-25-2005 8:36 pm
Thanks, L.M. I deleted some comments after this--sorry to all, not very democratic, I just don't like being lectured in a familiar way by total strangers.
- tom moody 9-27-2005 2:26 am
This is such delicate work compared to what I've seen of his
earlier larger pieces. Really lovely.
- ksh (guest) 9-27-2005 5:03 pm
The gatekeepers are no longer looking after anything, especially the gate, and thus are only keepers, sadly revealing their loss of the key. Harle has made many keys and from the looks of it is making the gate too.
- H Accola (guest) 9-28-2005 4:42 am