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This minimalist installation features a single, simple wooden column rising from the gallery floor to the ceiling. The clean, monochromatic color palette of white walls and natural wood creates a serene and contemplative atmosphere. The stark contrast between the vertical column and the surrounding open space emphasizes the sculptural quality of the work. The artist's choice of using a single, unadorned material and form suggests a focus on the inherent properties and visual elegance of the medium itself, rather than any overt symbolism or narrative. This restrained, conceptual approach is characteristic of the contemporary art style exemplified in this piece. ...
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Olga Balema
B.1984, Ukrainian/BritishOlga Balema’s artworks are an investigation of form. They are characterised by a tense relationship and contrasts in materiality, often comprising a hard framework with soft, fragile innards. Balema frequently employs latex which, especially in Bread for Life (2016), is held taut and barbed by jagged steel rods, or perhaps armatures, recalling Eva Hesse’s postminimalist practice and the slow sagging of the material over time. The notion of tension – perhaps most commonly, representations of the contrast between the hard bones of a human skeleton and the flesh that furnishes it – are further echoed in the rubber bands and shoelaces plotting a geometry across the gallery floor in brain damage (2019), the teetering globules of latex, moulded to look like breasts, protruding from the globe in 2016’s Globe, tacked on unsteadily, and the soft PVC sacks filled with steel rods and water, ready to burst, in Threat to Civilization 2 (2015). ...
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Hannah Hoffman Gallery
Los AngelesHannah Hoffman, Los Angeles opened in May 2013. The gallery maintains a program of international contemporary artists alongside historical exhibitions with a particular focus on feminist and conceptual practices.