The solo exhibition, ‘All I Ever Wanted Was Everything’, marks Joseph Klibansky’s first in Los Angeles, which opened at The House of Fine Art’s (HOFA) gallery in West Hollywood, Los Angeles on February 1st and will remain on view through to March 1st, 2019. Klibansky will then jump over the Atlantic and exhibit in HOFA’s Mayfair gallery in London from May 29th to June 19th, 2019.
Klibansky’s Artistic Style
Using iconographic and pop culture vernacular, Klibansky’s paintings reference the bleak and melancholic through a seemingly utopian lens. Playing with the implication of what is seen versus what an image implies, Klibansky’s hyper-realised paintings and sculptures address phenomenology (the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view) and explores realms where both utopian and dystopian truths can co-exist.
Some of Klibansky’s pieces will instantly resonate with those attending the exhibition as he uses a visual vocabulary sourced from photographs and online material. Klibansky intercuts images, including iconic cartoons and creates digital compositions that serve as the foundation for the artist’s series. Each photograph is enriched with acrylic paint, on archival cotton paper and overlays it all with a liquid resin.
For Klibansky’s large-scale idealistic paintings, which continue the artist’s on-going exploration of perception, he features a process of figurative and abstract layering. Through this process, Klibansky is able to compress time, space and narrative and examine the relationship between what we see and what an image can imply. What can first appear joyous can descend into bleak melancholy – implication and paradox are at the heart of Joseph Klibansky’s work.
Klibansky’s Bronze Sculptures Will Be On Display
Alongside the paintings and photographs, HOFA will also be exhibiting select pieces from Klibansky’s series of bronze sculptures. These playful figures aim to represent the juxtaposition between symbol and association. In Reflections of Truth II, Pinocchio and his long nose stand, weighted down by an impossibly-large diamond carried on his shoulders. Made of shiny, polished bronze, the deceitful puppet can be found almost charming.
Of the exhibition renowned art critic Peter Frank comments, “Joseph Klibansky is making conceptual sculpture, not Pop sculpture per se, so he operates in a discourse closer to (Damien) Hirst than to (Jeff) Koons, but directly related to neither. I see clearly what he is saying as an individual artist, and how he is saying it, and how he evolved to this point.”
Klibansky’s works serve as portraits of an alarming paradise that may not be what it appears. In order to tell the truth, Klibansky takes advantage of a lie. One must be conscious of the fact that nothing should be taken at face value in his works; something that makes this exhibition such intriguing one to witness first hand.
Exhibition Dates:
Los Angeles – 819 La Cienega Boulevard West Hollywood: 31st January – 1st March 2019
London – 58 Maddox St, Mayfair, London W1S 1AY: 29th May – 19th June 2019
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