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September Issue
2008
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston,
SC, Features Works by Amir H. Fallah
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibition, Post Stagecaft, featuring works by Iranian born and Los Angeles-based artist Amir H. Fallah. The exhibit will be on view from Sept. 5 through Oct. 19, 2008.
Fallah explores an exciting aesthetic employing a number of different mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, and site specific installation. He is simultaneously the founder and creative director of the international contemporary art and culture magazine Beautiful/Decay.
For Redux, Fallah will showcase new work featuring an update to his well known illustrious fort/terrariums. Fallah will deconstruct his fort structure, leaving a large and open 7' x 14' pedestal platform in the center of the gallery, supporting a myriad of self-referential objects. These immersive installations, recently presented at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery, lie at the core of Fallah's artistic production. Childhood memories, found objects and invasive sculptural constructions submit the spectator to a spontaneous, playful yet somber universe. Each sculpture is built from household knick-knacks, flower pots and seemingly random chosen objects which unfold a private boyhood landscape referencing a time past and lost.
Fallah's intuitive approach mixed with his use of ready made objects link his work to the Surrealists objet trouvé. But in Fallah's work today we meet a different scavenger, one that collects and recycles the notion of remembrance and cultural heritage. He seeks a new poetry of memory, one that can retrace and encompass our multi-complex society of today and yesterday, both personal and universal. In addition, Fallah's work speaks to elements of art history as he challenges the idea of pedestal presentation and deconstructs the notion of singularity. This postmodern approach causes his sculptural items to literally fall off the pedestal and unite as one large installation, rather than a collection of individual objects.
Fallah will arrive at Redux on Sept. 1, 2008, and will remain working in the gallery on his site-specific installation until its opening on Sept. 5. He will lead an informal gallery talk on the night of the opening.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Art Institute of Charleston.
For further info check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Center at 843/722-0697 or visit (www.reduxstudios.org).
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