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Federica Schiavo Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Europe by Ishmael Randall Weeks.

For the three room site-specific installation at the gallery the artist plans on using the distinct spaces to extend his exploration of spatial concepts and quotidian perspectives integrating thoughts on landscape, architecture, roof design and erosion as a way of entering a formal, conceptual and visual dialogue centered on and around fragility and structure.

The foundation of Randall Weeks’ work is the alteration of found and recycled materials and environmental debris, often on site, and includes such source materials as empty tins, books and printed matter, bicycles, boat parts, and building fragments, repurposing humble objects to create site-specific installations, sculptures, and works on paper that probe issues of urbanization, development, travel, mobility, and exchange in a globalized world. His sculptures often take the form of conveyances, such as carts, cranes, carriages, as well as chariots, altered maps, and precarious structures, alluding to the artist’s own migrations: Randall Weeks has spent the past four years living between Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and New York.

By creating works that take the visual form of functional objects while stripping them of their productivity, the artist addresses notions of labor and utility, forcing an examination of our understanding of culturally specific forms. Further, his use of abandoned objects and detritus as sculptural material forces an acknowledgement of the constituent elements, simultaneously exploiting and adapting their particular codes and associations.

Installation view

Artworks displayed

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Landscape Intersection
2010
carved books, wood, iron
180 × 300 × 300 cm

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Trittico con cemento
2010
3 acrylic gel photo-transfers mounted on aluminum, cement cast form
dimensions variable

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Ciudades-Jardin (Vetro, Le Corbusier)
2010
glass, mirror, iron, aluminum, cement, 2 acrylic gel photo-transfers on aluminum
installation, 200 x 200 x 100 cm

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Verde
2010
wood, 7 plants, spray paint, plastic covering
140 × 90 × 40 cm

Ishmael Randall Weeks

General Plan
2010
iron, Le Corbusier acrylic gel photo-transfer mounted on aluminum
variable dimensions

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Frei Otto (Montreal, 1967)
2010
acrylic gel photo-transfer mounted on aluminum
50 × 70 × 0,3 cm

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Anton Tedesko (Hayden Planetarium, 1934)
2010
acrylic gel photo-transfer mounted on aluminum
37 × 59 × 0,3 cm

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Cuba
2010
digital print on 250 gr sommerset watercolor paper
66,5 × 95 cm

Ishmael Randall Weeks

Whitewash
2010
digital print on 250 gr sommerset watercolor paper 
66,5 × 94,5 cm