through April 5th 2014
Night Gallery is proud to present a series of Spell Paintings in the portrait gallery by Berlinbasedartist James Krone. Using various counterfeit perfumes from which the paintings take theirnames (Catsuit for Men, Misty Cherry, Leather Woman…), Krone writes scented spells onto rawcanvas. These canvases are then lit on fire, and although the stacked letters that spell out thevarious incantations are protected by the alcohol in the perfume, the negative space betweenthem becomes charred by flames. In Krone’s work pyromancy gives formal presence to otherwiseinvisible inscriptions, creating an aesthetic rhetoric of abstraction that can only be communicated,accepted or rejected by primal, aphasic tendency.
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