Richard Artschwager: Hair/Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views

Richard Artschwager : Hair
A maverick who began his career as a cabinet-maker, the widely-acclaimed American artist Richard Artschwager has for forty years produced a wide-ranging body of work that often merged the machine with the hand-made. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is proud to present the first focused look at a material he has used throughout his career: rubberized horsehair. Emerging from the artist's famous blps series he began in 1968, the hair works depart from the crisp lines and sharp forms of his better-known Formica furniture works, blurring the clarity of sculptural form. In contrast to a contemporary art conversation weighed down by irony, strategy, and cool self-reflexivity, this new exhibition – featuring hair-covered blps, exclamation marks, corners, and hair-covered furniture pieces – foregrounds Artschwager's sincere celebration of the experiential knowledge of objects and pictures, and his passion for locating the body and soul of an image.

Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views
Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based Elad Lassry 's intimately framed photographs slip effortlessly between genres and iconographies, capturing plastic still-lives, uncanny publicity portraits, collages, animals, and landscapes. Thoroughly familiar and blank at the same time, his images move beyond the simple category of "photography" and instead ask us to revisit the perceptual experience of a picture. Often sliding between stillness and movement, the works possess a seductive, if slippery, hold on our vision. For Lassry's first major museum monograph in the United States, Sum of Limited Views combines over thirty photographs, including several new works, with a survey of his 16mm films, spotlighting the artist's capacity to create the "unstill" picture.

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Künstler Richard Artschwager , Elad Lassry