黑料不打烊

In his first commercial gallery exhibition in more than four decades, artist Arthur Kern presents a suite of hauntingly lyrical cast-resin sculptures, dazzling in their technical mastery and thematic sophistication. While Kern鈥檚 subject matter has spanned a broad range over the course of his career, this exhibition gathers together his equestrian sculptures, a genre whose elemental forms recall Etruscan statuary, Greco-Roman bas-relief, and the modernist panache of Marino Marini鈥攁ll channeled through Kern鈥檚 profoundly individualistic sensibility.  鈥淭here鈥檚 such a history between humans and horses,鈥� he reflects. 鈥淣ot only have they gotten us from one place to another, they鈥檝e also worked our fields, fought our wars, and done so much of our work. There鈥檚 a richness in that relationship.鈥� The exhibition鈥檚 two life-sized works and many smaller pieces explore this symbiosis while encapsulating Kern鈥檚 aesthetic, which curator Herman Mhire calls 鈥渁t once poetic, sublime, disturbing, magnetic, and beautiful.鈥�