Liaigre presents American artist Rob Wynne in its New York showroom at 102 Madison Avenue.
Internationally recognized for his work at the intersection of sculpture and installation, Rob Wynne continually questions our relationship with language. Since the beginning of his career in New York in the 1970s, he has continuously explored the guiding thread of his work: textual material.
Wynne tests the boundaries of genres in his delicately crafted mixed-media artworks, installations, drawings and canvases. Though he works with a range of techniques and mediums, poured glass is central to his work. Claiming that he is “always trying to break rules” in glass making, he demonstrates its malleability by shaping it freehand into provocative text pieces and by crafting it into objects both exquisite and absurd—including eyeballs, mushrooms and spider webs.
In the exhibition «I Remembered to Forget», Rob Wynne expresses his long-standing fascination with narrative. Appropriating resonant phrases overheard in his daily life and poetic quotations from his various literary and musical inspirations, he creates works that give a landscape to language.
Text is key to his practice. He plays with words embroidered over images, formed of glass, painted onto objects—all to alter meaning and suggest narratives. In his Embroidered Paintings, for example, he stitches open-ended phrases like “Come back” or “Disregard” over Rococo images, simultaneously sending them up and complicating
them, perhaps also hinting that the serious and the playful may be shades of the same thing.
Reminiscent of the Surrealist tradition, these works underline the blurring of reality and illusion that characterizes the exhibition.
Curator: Carlos Sicilia
In partnership with Mitterrand gallery
