Announcing ISLANDS, an exhibition of new site-specific installations by Aakash Nihalani at SIGNAL in Brooklyn.
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 26th, 2013
7—10pm
SIGNAL
260 Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Nihalani’s hand is recognizable across the wide variety of mediums his practice incorporates–bold, geometric shapes on a flattened visual plane, often employing techniques of contrast and forced perspective to convey virtual depth or movement. While his work can be digital or sculptural, his public interventions mostly require only tape and cardboard to create illusions that engage the viewer and surrounding architecture in a disorienting visual play. Two-dimensional objects may seem to recede distantly, be seen simultaneously from multiple points of view, or appear impossibly to be superimposed in space.
For ISLANDS, Nihalani foregoes a typically vibrant color scheme to create a series of site-specific works in high-contrast, monochromatic black and white. Along one wall, two distinct black masses resemble jigsaw fissures, submerged into the architecture. Elsewhere, a neatly lined procession of geometrical forms seem to emerge from the wall and diminish into the distance. The effects are illusory, activated only from certain points in the room, and appearing distorted or distended from others. The piecemeal negotiation of these viewpoints guides the viewer through the exhibition–fixing them at times to the footprints of the artist, the precise stance and angle from which the piece originated.
HOURS: Saturdays and Sundays, 1-6pm
Weekdays by appointment
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