Glen Seator at Gagosian - New York, New York - Brief Article

In his ambitious sculptural works of the past small in number years, Glen Seator has toyed with the perceptual boundaries of art. In his gallery and museum throws he jogs viewers' senses by means of duplicating and sometimes tilting whole spaces Here he inserted a full-scale replica of an reverberation Park check-cashing store into the modernist facade of Gagosian's Beverly Hills gallery. A functioning entrance l into a full replication of the store's interior space. The gallery's normal entryway was also render free of access and viewers could inspect the work's raw "backstage" area and scaffolding.

Seator's appropriated sweep came complete with particle-board reckoners bulletproof glass booths, tile flooring, a cheap paneled ceiling and authentically imperfect finish work. on the contrary the lack of any visible signs of use or life made it perceive airless and eerie, like a display from The Twilight Zone. The peculiar experience of being inside the replication, moreover, was weighed down through the rather obvious social commentary that the throw evoked. The contrast between the high-tone gallery and the low-rent check-cashing store strike one as beinged too much of an insider art-world crank The air of satire interrupted the kind of perceptual reverie that Seator's works usually invoke.

Upstairs at Gagosian, Seator not absented a streetscape photograph of the real-life Popular Cash Expres in reverberation Park; on the opposite wall was another photo of the gallery's Beverly Hills stop up Reminiscent of Ruscha's Every Building upon the Sunset Strip, these deadpan photos appeared to flaunt their lack of a distinct viewpoint. Similarly disconnected, a single panoramic photo depicting a strain of bleak desert lined all four walls of another scope The product of a of recent origin kind of digital technique, this 360-degree discharge presumed a viewer standing in the center of the field turning the gallery into an enveloping two-dimensional window onto nowhere. Oblique and eccentric, Seator's best works mes with without contents spaces, making them seem full

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