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CURRENT
Alice
Könitz opening reception exhibition runs 16 November through 18 January 2003 joint artists’
presentation with artist Ruby Neri PRESS CONTACT: Julie Deamer LOS ANGELES, October 2002 – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Alice Könitz that runs through Sunday 18 January 2003. An opening reception will take place on Saturday 16 November 2002 from 6 - 8 pm. The artist will speak about her work during a joint artists’ presentation with Ruby Neri on Friday 17 January 2003 at 7 pm. This exhibition has been organized by Irene Tsatsos. Alice Könitz’s exhibition, entitled "Beautiful Ornaments as Shadows, Crashed Down and a Video of Flickering Light in a 70’s Office Tower," is visible even before entering the building. On the windows of the building’s front façade, Könitz will install a vinyl pattern across the viewable area of the glass, which, while providing privacy and protection from the general street traffic, will also entice and permit curious passers-by to peak through the slivers of space between pattern elements. The window installation provides a foreground for the rest of Könitz’s work in the exhibition, which consists of a series of maquettes and a new sculpture. The sculpture is an amalgamation of her distinct memory of a wooden structure that she visited as a child in Germany, and a set of contemporary corporate office towers located in downtown Los Angeles. This show will also include a series of maquettes - small cardboard and mixed media models - which serve as proposals for structures that could function as sculpture, as architecture, or both. Könitz’s constructions suggest an opening of the modernist aesthetic. Rather than tight, impenetrable forms, there are gaps that reveal sites of potential. There is a purposeful absence in Könitz’s forms that alludes to material breakdown. However, breakdown does not equal disintegration. The spaces are slippages, sites for reconstructing alternate realities and structures. Könitz imagines the viewer relating to her sculptures as pseudo-functional objects, alluding to possibilities in the everyday. Stoking the tension between title, material, structure, and imagined functionality, Könitz plays with the viewer’s sense of hope and expectation. Admission to Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is free with a recommended donation of $3.00 ($2.00 students, members free). Gallery hours are Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm, Friday 12 – 9 pm*. Call 323.957.1777 for parking information, directions, and additional information.
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