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Now and Later

March 7, 2020
- April 4, 2020

 

After a number of solo shows in a row, Krakow Witkin Gallery presents a tight group show, “Now and Later”, featuring five artists: Mel Bochner, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Ana Tiscornia, and Kara Walker. While the formal appearance of the works vary greatly, they each engage issues of memory and reflection. What can be learned from past mistakes and successes, what is actually remembered and how can the answers to these questions move forth with better understandings.

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WORKS IN EXHIBITION

Exhibition View
Jenny Holzer
Truism Footstool (Starvation is nature’s way…)
1988
Baltic brown granite bench

16 x 23 x 15 3/4 inches  (40.6 x 58.4 x 40 cm)

TEXT READS ON TOP:
AN ELITE IS INEVITABLE
ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL
HUMANISM IS OBSOLETE
HUMOR IS A RELEASE
MONEY CREATES TASTE
MURDER HAS IT’S SEXUAL SIDE
SOLITUDE IS ENRICHING
TRUE FREEDOM IS FRIGHTFUL
WAR IS A PURIFICATION RITE

FRONT SIDE TEXT READS:
STARVATION IS NATURE’S WAY

BACK SIDE TEXT READS:
EATING TOO MUCH IS CRIMINAL

Edition of 40
(Inventory #29756)

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Kara Walker
Banks’s Army Leaving Simmsport
2005
from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Image size:  22 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches  (56.5 x 92.1 cm)
Paper size:  39 x 53 inches  (99.1 x 134.6 cm)
Frame size:  42 x 56 inches  (106.7 x 142.2 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed, dated and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #29491)

“Bank’s Army Leaving Simmsport from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)”, utilizes imagery of the 19th century “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War” and, in Walker’s titling, “annotates” the images with her own additions. These additions create a more rounded picture of who was involved in this civil war-era scenario. The use of simplified, stereotypical silhouettes further complicates the scenario, as they are forms that do not have any detail and thus don’t accurately represent the individual (thus adding cartoonish, derogatory illustrations to a pre-existing and equally inaccurate representation of what happened in the Civil War).

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Mel Bochner
Mistake
2019
Monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper

Image/paper size: 50 x 66 1/4 inches (127 x 168.3 cm)
Signed and dated recto in graphite
(Inventory #30574)

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William Kentridge
That Which I Do Not Remember from Triumphs and Laments
2017
Arrangement of 13 woodcuts onto 26 sheets of Somerset Velvet, Soft White paper, each with relief printing, assembled with 56 aluminum pins

82 1/2 x 78 1/2 inches (209.6 x 199.4 cm)
Edition of 12
Signed and numbered on accompanying certificate
(Inventory #29858)

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Ana Tiscornia
Portrait #7, Series II
2014
Digital image printed on archival Museum Portfolio Rag paper

Image size:  3 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches  (9.5 x 9.5 cm)
Frame size:  18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches  (47.6 x 37.5 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #26788)

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Ana Tiscornia
Portrait #1, Series II
2014
Digital image printed on archival Museum Portfolio Rag paper

Image size:  3 x 3 3/4 inches (7.6 x 9.5 cm)
Frame size:  18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (47.6 x 37.5 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #26790)

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Ana Tiscornia
Portrait #5, Series II
2014
Digital image printed on archival Museum Portfolio Rag paper

Image size:  6 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (17.1 x 15.9 cm)
Frame size:  18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (47.6 x 37.5 cm)
Edition of 10
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #26791)

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