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IAN WALLACE AT YVON LAMBERT
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NEW YORK CITY â Yvon Lambert announces that Ian Wallaceâs first solo exhibition will open January 17 with an artistâs reception at the gallery, from 6 to 8 pm. The show will run through February 16.
The artist will present a landmark exhibition featuring four Paris-based pieces from his urban intersection series alongside works from an important series from 1997, and continued in 2007, titled after Jean-Luc Godardâs film Masculin/Feminin, in which he appropriates scenes from classic European avant-garde films of the 1950s and 1960s.
In his intersection series Wallace continues to develop the motif of the urban intersection where he examines the contradictions that exist between the abstract structures of the painted support and the social dramas of the photographic image. The specific intersection is the crosswalk at the northwest corner of La Place de la Republique in Paris, located directly below the former studio of Louis Daguerre.
Wallace explores the relation between image and narrative in the âMasculin/Femininâ pieces. These images consist of photographs taken from video editions of films excised from their cinematic context, then split into a gendered montage that is suspended against the field of abstract painting.
Wallace was born in Shoreham, England, in 1943, but has lived and worked in Vancouver since 1944. He received his MA in art history from the University of British Columbia in 1968. Wallaceâs work has been exhibited widely in international institutions and is included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Lenbachaus, Munich, Reina Sophia, Madrid; and the Musee National dâart Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Yvon Lambert is at 550 West 21st Street. For information, www.yvon-lambert.com or 212-242-3611.