Nara Roesler New York is pleased to present Co(r)respondences: Constructive Affinities/Painting as Surface, the second edition of the Co(r)respondences project. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, the curatorial initiative seeks to bring together groups of artists from different generations whose poetics establish dialogues with each other.
This edition features thirteen artists, eight of whom are represented by Nara Roesler and the other international names invited. Although different from one another, the works dialogue with the curatorial axis of the exhibition, which consists of understanding painting as a special treatment of a surface and the types of constructivism that arise from this interpretation.
In order to make the dialogues between the works visible, the exhibition will be divided into sections: Constructive Assembly and its relationship with Space—which includes works by Lydia Okumura, Bruno Munari, Elaine Reichek and Lucia Koch —, Serial Compositions of Elementary Forms—with Bruno Munari, Tomie Ohtake and Abraham Palatnik —, Mutable Surfaces as Agents of Temporal and Spatial Displacement — with works by Carlos Bunga and Eugenio Dittborn —, Repetition between Order and Chaos — with Antonio Dias, Chris Martin and Bruno Dunley — and Gestural Surfaces - with works by Karin Lambrecht, Mira Schendel and Cristina Canale.
According to curator Luis Pérez-Oramas, the criterion for choosing these correspondences is not Art History, but rather Anthropology: “Only anthropology understands art as a politics of multiplicities, against the ghost of unification and synthesis, against a dominant element that subjugates everyone around it. Through a collision of contexts, anthropology suggests that art can only be universal on the condition that its universality consists in its incessant variation.”
