Please join us for a private walk through of After Image
with exhibition artist Paul Kneale
Presented by Nico Epstein ('09), Director of ARTUNER
Saturday, March 4, 12—1pm
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A new exhibition curated by ARTUNER at Cassina Projects, Chelsea
Cassina Projects
508 West 24th Street, NY, NY 10011
The event will be followed by drinks and light bites
Curated by ARTUNER and presented at Cassina Projects, After Image presents new works Paul Kneale and Toby Ziegler that move between the realms of the physical and the digital. While their approaches are drastically different, they share a concern for how to critically continue the discourse of painting, embracing the revolutionary technological capabilities that have decisively altered the public reception of the medium.
Paul Kneale's work explores across multiple media. From paintings and sculpture to video installation and performance. Pushing discussions of form and surface through the contemporary existential and new technologies. He has also contributed theoretical articles to leading publications such as Frieze and Spike, and has recently explored the potential of leading artist-organised projects.
Toby Ziegler brings together motifs derived from a wide range of sources, including photographs of the Freud family, Spanish still-life paintings, Dutch Old Masters and Nineteenth Century landscape paintings. He uses the computer to generate new forms and pictorial spaces, playing with facetted structures for his sculptures and manipulating layers of pattern for his two dimensional works. The physical realization of these digital forms allows mistakes and idiosyncrasies to creep into the rigorous schematic process and to erase the clear distinction between figuration and abstraction. Toby Ziegler revels in the slippage between the virtual and the actual, and furthermore in the very physical acts of decomposing, distorting, and damaging the materials. While Ziegler provides the viewer with some access to follow his path he intentionally leaves room for personal interpretation.
ARTUNER was founded in London by Eugenio Re Rebaudengo in 2013. It has distinguished itself through its hybrid approach, displaying and selling works via both its online platform and curated exhibitions. Since its inception, ARTUNER has organized an acclaimed series of shows including projects in: London, Berlin, Paris, Turin and Greece. The ongoing collaboration with Cassina Projects marks its first appearance in New York City.
Cassina Projects is a new gallery headed by Italian sibling team Irene Cassina & Marco Cassina, based in Chelsea, New York.