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LARRY KAGAN: STEEL & SHADOW
Hirschl & Adler Modern is proud to present it's first exhibition of work by contemporary sculptor Larry Kagan. Larry Kagan: Steel & Shadow, on view from September 11 to October 11, 2014, will feature ten of the artist's distinctive wall sculptures characterized by the unexpected relationship between complex steel assemblages and the shadows they cast.
The artist's process could be described paradoxically as both additive and reductive. Kagan attempts to "draw with light" by bending, twisting and welding steel rods beneath a single beam of light. The completed sculpture is an elaborate tangle of metal with lyrical swoops and flourishes that manage to "carve" the light with remarkable subtlety and control. The resulting shadow is so incongruous with the three-dimensional object as to elicit double takes from the viewer. The works upend everything we think we know about light and shadow, cause and effect, perception and reality.
