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This contemporary artwork showcases a captivating visual composition. The canvas features a vibrant blue fish swimming amidst a murky, earthy-toned backdrop, with prominent rock-like formations protruding from the surface. The artist's use of both natural and synthetic materials, such as the paper-like hanging device, creates a distinct textural contrast. The overall scene evokes a sense of a submerged, underwater environment, inviting the viewer to ponder the delicate balance between the natural and the manmade. The artist's intention may be to explore the fragility of aquatic ecosystems and the human impact on the natural world. ...
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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.