Richard Rezac: Address
[2024-01-18 19:10:03]
Richard Rezac, Quimby (painted steel plate, plate glass, enamel sheet glass, cherry wood), 2017, Chicago. A polite artist
The Renaissance Association exhibited works by Chicago sculptor Richard Rezac curated by the chief curator Solveig Østebø. For his work at the Renaissance Association, considering the nuance of the neo-gothic architecture of the gallery, Rezac includes the new and old pieces he produced in the past decade. Rezac's work is unified by eclectic references, including Italian baroque architectural drawings and strong organizational principles. These works explore the elaborate mechanisms of complex geometric sculpture logic, relationships with objects important to the human body, and interpretation and meaning. Rezac creates engravings that embodies or formulates them using precise structural and spatial orientations, rather than representing these complex systems with symbolic or simple illustrations.
Richard Rezac lives in Chicago. His sculpture is exhibited both at home and abroad, especially for his work at the Portland Art Museum (2006). He recently exhibited at James Harris Gallery in Seattle and DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. Other venues include the Yale University Art Museum, the Chicago Art Museum, the Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, and the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington DC. Rezac received a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Tiffany Foundation and in 2006 received the Roman Prize from the American Academy of Rome. He is an associate professor at the Chicago Art Museum.
Solveig Østebø has been an executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society since 2013. She served as Director of the Bergen Museum of Art in 2003 and developed into one of the leading contemporary art institutions in Europe, mainly in production, research and discourse. She made many exhibitions including SlideRichard Tuttle (2012), Gabriel Kuri (2012), Tretrachromat Tauba Auerbach (2011), Christopher Williams (2011), Stephen Prina (2009), Sergej Jenssen (2008), The Welfare Show It was curated. Elmgreen & Dragset (2005). Øvstebø talks about contemporary art and talks
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It seems to be meaningful when you pass Richard Rezac's new exhibition "address". On the white wall of the Renaissance Association's main gallery, the windows were broken, the arch-shaped ceiling room, twenty thin objects protruding from the long Chicago wall fell off the ceiling and rested on the floor. In Rezac's elegant but slightly disengaged form, the cherry looks like plastic, the bronze looks like a pine, and the stone resembles a bell (although "stone" is actually bronze). They are not ambitious, they are abstract showing something realistic. Hovering over the head with soft red painted wood and cast aluminum Untitled work, it seems that you can imagine that the signboard of the 1950's restaurant might become a hint of airplane wings. Do not forget to eat there.
In this speech we have collected 20 sculptures produced by Chicago artist Richard Rezac in the past 20 years. In addition to some of the new works entrusted by the Renaissance Association, the exhibition features the latest sculpture and a small part of his early career. Together they showed the artist a continuing involvement in the logic and inexplicable interpretive mechanisms of geometric sculpture. The title "address" of the exhibition tells the diversity of the word. As an action, it agrees with the relationship between sculpture and its presumed spectators, reflecting the intentional creation and selection of artists in response to the