Opening at OV Project Thursday 8th of September from 11 am to 9 pm
Exhibition: [removed] – [removed]
Get Out Come Back Stay Away
These 3 phrases were a staple refrain, and textual image, of Richard Nonas. While often seen, and most commonly interpreted as “Get out, Stay away, Come back”, the 3 phrases were endlessly interchangeable to Nonas, creating multiple variations and putting linear thought into doubt. The viewer's gaze bounces between the words resulting in many different interpretations of reality. In the same way, the sculptures of Nonas play with the manipulation of space and the perception of it. The pieces change the space around them making it vibrant and kinetic so that they seem to engage in an endless dialogue between the empty and the filled.
Nonas’s deeply sensitive work speaks to both the intellect and the gut. The idea of place, whether in the form of buildings or objects, shifts our perception of the world and the world itself. He is not only a sculptor but rather a sculptor of space, atmosphere and consciousness. This is why he never considered himself a minimal artist. His work is that of constant, obsessive and permanent research arising out of our daily lives. For Nonas, the choices he made when filling space were always less made by aesthetic decisions than by elemental decisions about the “rightness”, the ethics of the intrusion he was making. He believed sculptures must change both the mental and physical space and must change the world.
Richard Nonas
Untitled, [removed] (1995) Steel 2 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches ([removed] x [removed] x [removed] cm)
Modified opening hours during Bruxelles Gallery Weekend 8 9, 10 & 11 September 11am – 7pm
o v project room Rue Van Eyck, 57 B – 1050 Brussels