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Christoph Dahlhausen (DE), Kevin Finklea (US), Billy Gruner (AU), Peter Holm (DK), Kyle Jenkins (AU) and John Nixon (AU).
Curated by Peter Holm.
Curators note:
As an artist, you often stand alone in crucial moments in the studio, pondering on decisions or roads to take. We discover in the coming together, that, though worlds apart, we develop unseen movements and adjustments, hints and building blocks in a language of artists. In this language we study the grammar and build further small sentences to put new meaning into a new world, but still with regard to the foundation.
Kiev and Malevich play a key role in the defining times in the art of the 20th century and the works from the period of 1913 - 15 in which Suprematism developed and the monochrome works were made. This is still an engine for development and research, maybe today more than ever, as Nonobjective art is gaining new ground and attention.
I am very happy to present these artists and these small works, in this context. It should be an appetizer for further investigations into highly specialized and respected oeuvres.
Thank you to KNO Lab, thank you to the artists and thank you to Billy Gruner for his extensive essay “NONOBJECT – New Work New Language New Modern”.
Peter Holm, Græsted, March 2018.
The “NONOBJECT – New Work New Language New Modern” essay is available for reading in PDF.
'Icons\Nonobject' on facebook.
Partners: Mikhail Bulgakov museum.
Media-parnters: InKyiv
Mikhail Bulgakov museum
Andreevskiy Descent, 13
Kyiv, Ukraine.
Opening March 22nd, 7-9 pm, 2018.
On view through April 20th, 2018.
Open hours: 10am–6pm.
Closed - Wednesdays.
All photos ©KNO
Exhibition views.
Kyle Jenkins, John Nixon, Christoph Dahlhausen and Billy Gruner.
John Nixon
Untitled, 2018
enamel on canvas with various woods
John Nixon
Untitled, 2018
enamel on canvas with various woods
Kyle Jenkins and John Nixon
Kyle Jenkins
'Leftover #1', 2018
acrylic on plywood
Kyle Jenkins
'Leftover #1', 2018
acrylic on plywood
Christoph Dahlhausen, Billy Gruner, Kevin Finklea and Peter Holm
Christoph Dahlhausen
the white work (limited options), 2017
white, color matt board, nail
Christoph Dahlhausen
the white work (limited options), 2017
white, color matt board, nail
Christoph Dahlhausen, Billy Gruner and Kevin Finklea
Billy Gruner
Build #9, 2017
mdf, acrylic
Billy Gruner
Build #9, 2017 (fragment)
mdf, acrylic
Kevin Finklea
‘Souvenir for Erwin’
acrylic on laminated poplar and cherry
‘Souvenir for Elena’
acrylic on laminated poplar and oak
2018
Kevin Finklea
‘Souvenir for Erwin’
acrylic on laminated poplar and cherry
‘Souvenir for Elena’
acrylic on laminated poplar and oak
2018
Christoph Dahlhausen, Billy Gruner, Kevin Finklea and Peter Holm
Peter Holm
Triangular Piece, black version. 2014
laquer on MDF
Peter Holm
Triangular Piece, black version. 2014
laquer on MDF
Peter Holm
Triangular Piece, black version. 2014 (fragment)
laquer on MDF