 The show runs until January 19, 2008 (closed between December 20 and January 13).
James Carl was born in 1960 in Montreal (Canada) and studied from 1983 to 1996 at art acadmies in Bejing, New Jersey, Montreal and British Columbia. Carl has won various international awards and grants. He has exhibited his work in solo- and group exhibitions in North America, Europe and East Asia.
In the series Jalousie , Carl has turned his attention explicitly to sculpture - to some of its basic attributes and contemporary conditions. "Negative spaces" is another working title for these sculptures. Among the ideas under consideration in the work are the ways in which formal propositions and technical processes achieve status as "negative" attributes. These works consider, for example, the ambivalent relationship of art to craft and the - quite literally - central position of "negative space" in modernist sculpture. In perceptual terms, these woven works invoke a strong physical sense of negative space as a positive and palpable constituent force in the individual works: The empty interiors of these sculptures approach presence as a direct corollary of absence. |
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