Ivan Navarro

Roebling Hall is proud to announce Iva´n Navarro in Traces at Whitney Museum at Altria

Iván Navarro’s sculptural installation consists of a large-scale, black cubic space in which viewers enter to find a set of illusional mirrored sculptures infinitely reflecting text and light. Accompanied by a sound component, the work exists as both singular sculpture and also immersive environment in the Sculpture Court. Drawing from the legacy of Minimalism, Navarro explores the viewer’s subjective encounters with formal composition and highlights the play of perception and memory.

WHITNEY AT ALTRIA TO OPEN TRACE

June 30 – November 12, 2006

Featuring new works by Jedediah Caesar, Shannon Ebner, Iván Navarro, Karyn Olivier, Michael Queenland, and Karlis Rekevics



>From June 30 through November 12, 2006, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria presents Trace: Jedediah Caesar, Shannon Ebner, Iván Navarro, Karyn Olivier, Michael Queenland, and Karlis Rekevics, featuring six artists who deal in various ways with the idea of the spectral trace, the absent object, and how the invisible—time, memory, desire—shapes our material reality. A pervasive sense of loss and tragedy links a number of these works, but they also possess a kind of sublime memorialization.


Occupying both the Gallery and Sculpture Court, the exhibition features new work by Jedediah Caesar, Shannon Ebner, Iván Navarro, Karyn Olivier, Michael Queenland, and Karlis Rekevics. This exhibition is organized by Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator, Whitney Museum of America Art, and Branch Director and Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Jedediah Caesar’s geode sculptures made from resin, dust, and detritus collected from his studio constitute a material archive of time and the subtle accrual of remnant objects. Cast from molds based on the schematic diameter of an earlier geode piece and encrusted with salt crystals and plaster forms that grow like barnacles from the surface, the new work functions both as a reflection of the past, a cross section of the ephemeral present, and a ghostly suggestion of future forms.