Richard Rezac

Richard Rezac

March 14 - August 21, 2020
Currently installed in the gallery’s Chelsea location is a solo exhibition of new and recent work by sculptor Richard Rezac, the artist’s first with Luhring Augustine. The abstract sculptures, including floor, wall, and ceiling pieces, are rooted in a studious consideration of the history of art, architecture, and design. Recalling familiar forms, the works engage our memory and inspire material associations, while eluding easy recognition. Taciturn, earnest, and magnetic, they toggle between congruence and dissonance, space and form, lightness and solidity.
The sculptures quietly connote everyday sources, such as elements of architecture or design, leaving the viewer with a feeling of familiarity and closeness. Their human scale and careful execution initiate dialogues that demand time in which they reveal themselves slowly. The combination of exquisite craft and spatial intentionality lend the sculptures a knowing presence, as if they are full of concealed information.
“Note the specific means by which Rezac’s sculptures occupy space. While about half are wall-bound—jutting out, projecting from its surface, or cutting across corners—the rest stand or sit on the floor, hang from ceilings, inhabit their own integrated tables and platforms, or demarcate area through division. These placements are all utterly precise and carefully orchestrated by the artist, suggesting in each case a quasi-agency of the object at hand and its active insertion into space rather than passive anticipation of contact.”

- Graham Bader
“There are two closely related sculptures in the exhibition, and although both are untitled, I intended each to have clear resemblance to landscape, and specifically the view one has looking at a distant range of mountains or hills.

I wanted the stark difference of modelled plaster in juxtaposition to cast, untreated bronze. The one is light-filled and buoyant, the other resembling the earth, heavy and almost archaic, given the ingredients of bronze shown on the surface.”

- Richard Rezac
To download a complete digital copy of the exhibition brochure featuring the essay Learning to Converse: Richard Rezac by Graham Bader, click here.
Exhibition Checklist
- Richard Rezac, Chigi, Pamphili, 2019
- Richard Rezac, Untitled (19-05), 2019
Additional Works
- Richard Rezac, Study for Untitled (20-02), 2020

Exhibition Checklist

Additional Works