Ernesto Caivano | Union and Offerings
April 26 – May 28 2005, Tuesday to Saturday, 11 AM -6 PM
Opening April 23, 6 PM

We are pleased to announce the coming solo exhibitions from Ernesto Caivano.
In Bogen 51 carlier | gebauer is showing a new work from Ernesto Caivano. The artist, living in New York, has met with the most positive response in his country and has already exhibited in PS1 and the Whitney Biennal. Caivano works on a highly complex world of fantasy, founded upon a timeless epic, which continually produces new narratives, details and connections. A pair of lovers gets separated and the man is transformed into a knight, the woman into a space-ship; Caivano depicts the many mysterious stations of the odyssey that the pair take to in order to find each other. The odyssey leads to an enormous universe of fantasy, classical romance and high-technology wherein knights, princesses and crystalline nano-structures enter into various combinations. Caivano executes his drawings with an unparalleled accuracy and meticulousness reminiscent of the old masters; they remind one of Albrecht Dürer’s etchings and evoke comparison with Romantics such as Blake and Füssli, with silhouettes from the 19th century, or with the contemporary French comic.

carlier | gebauer is pleased to mark the beginning of their collaboration with Ernesto Caivano by showing a central piece from the epic After the Woods, an installation in three parts. The theoretical substructure of Union and Offerings refers to brain research in which the right and left hemispheres and their conjunction form a trinity; thus one panel tells the story of the knight, the other the princess’ story. The third resolves both narrative strands in a universe. Ernesto Caivano can be seen at the moment in the exhibition Greater New York in PS1 in New York.
 
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