David Castillo Gallery Artist Talk: Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Saturday, October 3, 2009 3 pm SHARP!
David Castillo Presents
Artist Talk: Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova
You might sleep, but you will never dream
Please join us at David Castillo Gallery for an artist talk and walk-through of You might sleep, but you will never dream, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist will begin at 3 pm sharp with a walk-through of the exhibition, which is to be followed by a brief question and answer session.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
The artist uses a vocabulary of domestic objects and suburban architectural elements as a visual language, addressing our social, cultural and emotional existence. He uses material appropriations first introduced in post-minimal and conceptual art. Rodriguez-Casanova is presenting a series of objects that use a room as the point of departure for his concepts. All the objects are elements of a room which have been detached from their original context.
As the title of Damien Hirst’s work suggests, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, Rodriguez-Casanova is interested in understanding the loss of someone, including one’s self (and the “impossibility” of such). In the work An Open Door, 2008 commissioned for the Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection, the artist built an entirely new wall with a blackout doorway created by a black sheet of plexi. The opening becomes a metaphor for what lies beyond our existence. This same element exits in A Folded Bed, 2009 in which a portable folding bed is intersected by a large sheet of the same black plexi. The black plane once more is a metaphor for a void. In A Bedroom Floor, 2009 the artist has recreated the exact tile grid of his adolescent bedroom floor. A nod to Carl Andre, the work uses its own detachment and “negative space” properties to focus on the floor and its plight in its original context.
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova lives and works in Miami, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been featured in publications such as Art in America, ARTnews, and Sculpture Magazine. The artist has recently exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Sculpture Center in New York, among many other venues.
Saturday is also the closing day of You might sleep, but you will never dream as well as Amir H. Fallah’s Flowers and Terrorists.
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