Peter Coffin - The Colors Are Bright

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Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin is pleased to announce The Colors Are Bright, the forthcoming exhibition of work by New York based artist, Peter Coffin . The exhibition will be open from 20 March to 7 May, 2010.
Peter Coffin’s work engages a playful consideration that invites extended meaning. The works themselves resemble jokes; loopy sculptures and conceptual acts are often performed deadpan – farce with no apology. They engineer scenarios that keep relevant the impossibility of communication, give substance to the invisible, often impossible and engender creative interpretation.
Peter Coffin’s approach to art making utilizes varied means of production for intentionally varied results and experience. He orchestrates the work of experts in different fields, be they historians or sociologists, astronomers or artists. One group of artworks in this new exhibition is the result of Coffin’s work with a topologist, then an engineer, then a 3D modeler, and finally a neon fabricator, the result of which is the artist’s Untitled (Neon Knots), 2010.
Coffin’s work invokes art history, fringe science, social psychology and epistemology to explore interpretation. His matter-of-fact aesthetic suggests an interest in the methods used to render common things loquacious and common situations significant. This approach is concerned with the drawing out of ideas. In 2009, Peter Coffin was commissioned by the Tate Britain Museum in London to create an original artwork for their Triennial. He responded by first curating a gallery with paintings, photographs and sculptures from their permanent collection, which he then animated with video and sound. For his exhibition at Galerie Emmanuel
Perrotin, Coffin has arranged a curated exhibition of artworks from the Centre Georges Pompidou to animate. Works include masterpieces such as Alexander Calder’s wire sculpture of Josephine Baker from 1928, Rene Magritte’s Le viol, 1945 and Piet Mondrian’s Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc II, 1937.
The Colors Are Bright, will also feature a new kinetic sculpture; an automated table, which will slowly roll through the gallery carrying a champagne pyramid. Stemming from the art of the silhouette that appeared in the 18th century, a new series of 39 Sculpture Silhouettes in reflective, high-polished steel and
2 large-scale Sculpture Silhouettes on display in the garden of the gallery, reproduce iconic art historical works ranging from the Venus of Willendorf, 24,000 - 22,000 BCE to Joseph Beuys’ Fat Chair of 1964 in the form of flat, shadows that seem to hover in space. A selection of full size Sculpture Silhouettes are currently on display in City Hall Park in New York City until May 2010.
In the work Untitled (Log with Model of the Universe), 2010, Peter Coffin presents a sculpture comprised of models physicists use to illustrate the relationship of the third and fourth dimension using a hollowed-out log to represent the 3rd dimension and the specific movement of a lively disco light for the 4th dimension as it expands out of the dead log representing the 3rd dimension.

Künstler Peter Coffin