orensanz summer museum ACTIVITIES

June 14th to October 3rd 2009

Angel Orensanz, A little Retrospective

ART EXHIBITIONHours 10am to 5pm Friday and 10am to 7pm Saturday and Sunday .

The exhibition A little Retrospective presents some examples of the most important works of Angel Orensanz, including drawings, photography, metal and fabric sculptures. Three different projects distributed in different locations inside the house.

The exhibition consist of three different projects distributed in different rooms inside the house that will be holding the exhibition.

Matter / Light project:

Angel Orensanz’s matter/light is a study of his expressionist work paired with a surrealist sensibility. For the last couple of decades the Spanish/American sculptor has captured landscapes seen in motion from cars or airplanes and has transformed them into imprints of light and colored energy. This energy recording process has taken the New York-based artist to Wales, Sicily, the Pyrenees in Southern France and Moscow. This result assimilates motion photography of landscapes perceived as sparks and fleeting lines as they fly in front of the camera. The activated light caresses over the viewer’s body and consciousness, which can be both seen and felt while walking through the installation. In this sense, the light that Orensanz uses is not an addendum to the piece, but instead creates the environment and context for the viewer.

The installation of this project, inside the Building #11 in Governors Island is described below:

Also, like a part of the same project Matter/Light, we will present a selection of Orensanz’s light boxes (multilayered light landscapes) in some rooms of the basement of the house and a selection of drawings in some rooms of the first floor of the house.

Light Boxes Matter/Light

Drawings:

A collection of 10 drawings created between 1990 and 2005 will be exhibited in one of the rooms in the first floor of the house. Some drawings are a representation of all the material that has been used to create the projections for the Matter /Light project.

Drawings

Fabric Sculptures:

Finally, the artist will install fabric sculptures of different color and shapes creating interventions in the porch and in the tree that is located just in front of the house. This fabric sculptures had previously popular acclaim when presented in Venice, St. Petersburg and Lisbon.

Fabric Sculptures and Tubular Sculptures