source: aujourdhuipt

Two Rooms is a solo exhibition of two new sculptural installations by Will Ryman at Paul Kasmin Gallery. The Situation Room (2012–2014) and Classroom (2015) are explorations of global and historical complexities, a subject the artist first began to investigate with America (2013), a conceptual sculpture of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood cabin shown in February of 2013 at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

The Situation Room (2012–2014) is a life-size installation based on the iconic photograph that captured members of the Obama administration and U.S. military leaders watching in real time the Navy SEAL raid on Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. Among those gathered in the White House Situation Room were President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. This millennia-old practice of leaders observing battle from behind the lines is made possible at a distance of more than 7,000 miles by twenty-first century technology.

Developed over the course of three years, the sculpture is composed of crushed black coal as a reference to industrial development and as a means to redact the specificity of the photograph, reducing the tableau to its elemental components. The Situation Room is a contemplation on war, power, propaganda, industrialization, and political theater. In its reductive monumentality, the artist’s appropriation of the photograph becomes an anonymous fossilization of the timelessness of war.

According to the artist, “I removed the identity of many faces in that room because, for me, what’s interesting is the situation itself. It is one that has been repeating itself throughout history and will probably continue to repeat itself. The key administration remains recognizable because they are the brand that is specific to this event and time period, however the work challenges the emotion and nationalism that the photograph was intended to provoke by focusing on the forms of the other figures rather than identity.” The Situation Room takes on additional meaning as a provocative commentary on power with the recent article that questions the Obama administrations narrative of the raid.

Classroom presents 12 figures from the same cast, each made of a different natural resource or composite essential to various cultures and economies including cadmium, titanium, salt, iron, oil, chrome, copper, wood, and gold. Arranged in four rows of three, the figures evoke traditional classroom settings, interchangeable workers in a factory’s assembly line, or soldiers in military formation. Their youthful appearance references the practice of child labor so widespread in many countries. Corporations in developed countries often refer to their employees as their greatest “natural resource,” and in one interpretation of the installation, Ryman extends the metaphor to an inexorable conclusion: workers are a material to be mined and exploited in the service of industry. They are, to the extent possible, mechanized.
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source: artsynet

Will Ryman is known for creating monumental public sculptures that transform and enliven the daily urban experience. In these works, Ryman represents natural subjects at many times their normal size and installs them in active city streets, as with Bee (2011). Viewed in this context, the colorful and eye-catching figures are fantastical, evoking a sense of childlike awe over things normally taken for granted. Ryman also creates indoor installations, manipulating the sizes of various objects to suggest their relative importance to the artist or viewer; a beer can, for instance, may be as large as a lamp. He is the son of minimalist painter Robert Ryman, and his style recalls the Pop Art of Jasper Johns and Claes Oldenburg, the latter also known for creating large-scale, good-humored public works.
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source: budapestauction

Will Ryman é um artista que cria a arte figurativa, inclusive maior do que esculturas de vida urbana que variam de 4 a 20 metros de altura. Obra de Ryman tem sido destaque em: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Marlborough Gallery, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., The Saatchi Gallery, Galerie Bernd Kluser, e Paul Kasmin Gallery. Arte Ryman é exibido atualmente na cidade de Nova York no Shopping Park Avenue, entre as ruas 57th e 67. A instalação é apresentado pelo Fundo para a Park Avenue Escultura Comissão e do Departamento de Nova York de Parques e Recreação. Ryman foi um dramaturgo de longa data antes de se tornar um artista. Em 2001, sua primeira escultura foi baseada em um personagem de uma peça que ele escreveu. Ele dedicou-se exclusivamente à escultura desde 2002 e ocupou várias exposições individuais até à data. Sua arte tem sido destaque no 7 World Trade Center, Marlborough Gallery, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc. em Nova York, bem como a Casa Howard, em Washington. Internacionalmente, as instalações Ryman arte ter sido na Galeria Saatchi, em Inglaterra, e Bernd Galerie Kluser na Alemanha. Ryman é atualmente representado por A Kasmin Paul Gallery, em Nova York. Ryman nasceu e cresceu em Nova York. Seu pai, Robert Ryman, é o pintor minimalista mais conhecido por suas pinturas de brancos e sua mãe Merrill Wagner, é um pintor notável de abstrações sobre o aço. Em 2004, Ryman teve sua primeira exposição individual na Klemens Gasser & Grunert Tanja em Nova York. Ele era também uma parte do New York Mais 2005 exposição no PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Algumas de suas instalações bem conhecidos incluem “a cama,” feita a partir de papier-mâché, onde um homem reclina gigantes em um mundo de sonho, que abrange mais de 8 metros, e está atualmente na coleção de Saatchi. Sua outra peça popular “Um Novo Começo”, possui trinta e nove esculturas representando mais de cem rosas grandes, com detritos de jardim, tais como tampas de garrafas, latas amassadas e bolha ¬ invólucros de goma, com uma distorção de escala que reflete a visão de um roedor de um novo York jardim de rosas. “Um novo começo” foi exibido na Galeria Marlborough. Sua 96 x 180 x 330 polegadas instalação de “A cama de” foi incluído na exposição 2009 The Shape of Things to Come, na Galeria Saatchi, em Londres. Seu trabalho é realizado na coleção do Museu de Arte Farnsworth e Faculdade Colby Museum of Art, e também o Martin Z. Margulies Colecção eo Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY. Exposição de Ryman primeira arte pública está actualmente instalado no Parque Shopping Avenida entre as ruas 57th e 67 até 31 de maio de 2011. “As Rosas” inclui 38 esculturas flor, assim como 20 individuais-de-rosa pétala esculturas. Esta instalação é apresentado pelo Fundo para a Park Avenue Escultura Comissão e do Departamento de Nova York de Parques e Recreação.