VOLTA5 Edition Zilvinas Kempinas

VOLTA5 Edition
ZILVINAS KEMPINAS | New York, USA
b. 1969 in Plunge


represented by Spencer Brownstone Gallery

 

Lithuanian artist Zivinas Kempinas transforms space by the most minimal and simplest of means: light, air, shadow ... and perhaps the wafting trail of some un-spooled magnetic tape, his signature medium. These works exploit the strength and ultra-lightweight nature of tape to create beguiling and seemingly contradictory physical spectacles, whose disorienting and sometimes dizzying qualities cleverly subvert relationships with architecture, form, and space. For VOLTA5 Kempinas presents two specially commissioned pieces: the VOLTA5 edition Light Formation alongside his newest large-scale kinetic piece, Flux, presented by Spencer Brownstone Gallery.

 

Light Formation (2009), is a wall-mounted piece that uses light as constructive material, in the same manner the tape pieces use wind. With the traditional appearance of a painting or drawing, the work is in fact a tiny installation whose image structure is based on the cast shadows between small nails, inserted very precisely into the wood. The slender frame—also handmade—functions not only as a traditional frame but also creates a further spatial effect, whose small and delicate detail is another signature to Kempinas’ work. The large-scale kinetic piece, Flux, shows the artist’s more spectacular side and purposefully creates a pendant to the static Tube, created during his recent six-month stay at Atelier Calder and currently on show in Venice, where Kempinas currently represents Lithuania at the 53rd International Art Exhibition.

 

Aside from representing Lithuania at 2009's Venice Bienanle, Kempinas was also included in Manifesta7; ‘Go East’, a two-person exhibition alongside Roman Ondák at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Luxembourg; the group show “The Immediate Future” at the Lund Konsthall; and had a large solo show at Kunsthalle Vienna in 2008.

 


For information on Flux please refer to Spencer Brownstone Gallery.

 

 

Light Formation, 2009
Plywood, nails, clamp lights, paint
60 x 120 cm (approx.); 2' x 4'
Edition of 20
Price, Nrs 1-5: USD 1,250 / € 920
Nrs 6-10: USD 1,500 / € 1,100
Nrs 11-20: $1,850 / € 1,350