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RICHARD FLEISCHNER: Works 1963-2011
MATERIAL / PROCESS / PLACE
RICHARD FLEISCHNER: Works 1963-2011
The confines of the
Knoedler-Gallery obviously do not permit the actual installation of one of Richard
Fleischner’s Grand Land-Projects.
But the photographs, sketches,
& sculptures now on-view certainly do evoke his concerns with Shapes & Forms in Space, Sculpture & Architecture in Nature & in
Specific-Sites.
Consider his small constructions, Square & Cylinder, formed of wood,
wax, & paper!
On a much grander-scale,
Fleischner’s Tufa Maze amazes
visitors to Kykuit, at the
Rockefeller-Estate, in Pocantico-Hills.
Sod Maze is installed
in Newport, Rhode Island.
The current show includes works
from his series, Lead Drawings, on
loan from San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Fleischner works small-scale not only in wax & wood,
but also in steel, terra-cotta,
bronze, & lead.
As the Artist says: "My work grows
out of the details that I recognize
& acknowledge within the Commonplace & the Universal.
"It is a practice that involves
the juxtaposition & critical-distancing between material-interactions &
placements.”
But you really have to SEE his Site-Specific Installations or Interventions to get a very strong
Visual-Sense of what that means. Words do not suffice…
Also at Knoedler—in the Project-Space:
Rauschenberg x 4
[19 March through 30 April 2011]
Glenn Loney