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Art News:
SIMON
EVANS, Shitty Heaven (detail), 2010, Tape, paper and felt tip pen on
paper, 56 3/4 x 51 1/8
inches.
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SIMON EVANS: Shitty
Heaven
May 12 -
June 11, 2011
Opening Reception May 12 from
6-8PM
James
Cohan Gallery is pleased to present Shitty Heaven, our second solo
exhibition by Simon Evans, opening May 12th and running through June 11th, 2011.
Evans meticulously assembles prosaic materials, such as scraps of paper, scotch
tape, pencil shavings and correction fluid into diagrams, maps, flowcharts and
diary entries that obsessively catalogue the fragments of a life. In 15 new
text-based drawings, weavings and embroideries, the artist shares his
confessional, idiosyncratic and wickedly humorous observations.
The [UTF-8?]exhibition’s title work, Shitty Heaven, envisions the other
world as a planned suburban community, complete with its Gym, Clinic, Gallery
and Church. At the center of this floor plan is the [UTF-8?]“Abyss of
Excessive Enjoyment and [UTF-8?]Trauma,” anchoring a dystopic heaven where
[UTF-8?]“things just happen and people blow apart, [UTF-8?]“comfortable
places are overrun with rats and escaped [UTF-8?]slaves” and [UTF-8?]“you
can tell your therapist [UTF-8?]everything.” The Bedroom is home to
[UTF-8?]“freedom from night which is not to imply [UTF-8?]death,” while
Indoor Shopping is fraught with [UTF-8?]“unease” and [UTF-8?]“dead
relatives live through the money they have [UTF-8?]left” in the Gym.
A series of drawings of handwritten text radiating outward to repeat the title
words The Hand, Positive Outcomes and The Voice marks a new
exploration for the artist. Painstakingly crafted, these works function as a
yantra or visual energy diagram traditionally used to direct focus during
meditation or occult rituals. [UTF-8?]Evans’ first tapestry work, Letter to
the Future, replicates the appearance of handwriting on a sheet of legal
paper with carefully stitched words addressed to the Future, describing a past
when [UTF-8?]“they had blunt tools and everyone was [UTF-8?]lazy,” and
signed from William Shakespeare.
In other works on view, Evans attempts to map out the nine circles of Hell in
Lite Evil; create a master chart sorting out all the people he knows in
Everyone; aggregate a lexicon of universal icons in Vocabulary;
and diagram out his own tongue-in-cheek version of [UTF-8?]Maslow’s hierarchy
of needs in Survival.
Simon Evans will participate in the 12th International Istanbul Biennial
in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2011. His work has been the subject of solo
exhibitions at Galeria Fortes-Vilaça, Săo Paulo; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen;
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco and White Columns, New York. Evans has also
been featured in important international group exhibitions, including Ground
Level: Hayward Touring Curatorial Open 2010-11, London (2010); The World
is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2009); 31ş Panorama
da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de Săo Paulo, Săo Paulo (2009);
British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning [UTF-8?]1967–2009,
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase (2009); Learn to Read, Tate Modern,
London (2007); Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2007); All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary
Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2007) and the 27th Săo Paulo Biennial,
Săo Paulo (2006). Simon Evans currently lives and works in Berlin.
For further information, please contact Jane Cohan by e-mail or by telephone at 212.714.9500.
For more information on Simon Evans, please visit his artist page on our website
at James Cohan
Gallery
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