{"id":3390,"date":"2014-10-30T18:15:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2014-10-30T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:18:51","slug":"myth-and-math-saint-clair-cemin-paul-kasmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"MYTH AND MATH – Saint Clair Cemin @ Paul Kasmin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saint Clair Cemin, A de Amor, 2014, polished stainless steel<\/p>\n

80 3\/4 x 86 5\/8 x 89 3\/4 inches (205 x 220 x 228 cm), Edition of 3. Courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
\nSaint Clair Cemin: Myth and Math
\nOctober 30 – December 23, 2014
\nPaul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Avenue, New York
\nOpening Reception: Thursday, October 30, 6 – 8pm
\nPaul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Saint Clair Cemin: Myth and Math, on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from October 30 to December 23, 2014. This is the artist\u2019s third exhibition with Paul Kasmin Gallery, following SIX and Saint Clair Cemin On Broadway, both in 2012.<\/p>\n

The exhibition marks a further development in Cemin’s pluralistic expanse of work that is both visceral and formal. With his new series, the artist continues to push the boundaries of shape and line, manipulating perspective, and uniting disparate materials and themes within individual sculptures. The seemingly ordered chaos and harnessed movement are indicative of Cemin\u2019s constellation of paradoxical objects. As Cemin states, \u201cI made my work a meeting place for all opposites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simultaneously, an exploration of the rigor of geometry is also entrenched in Cemin\u2019s sculpture. For him, the changeless purity of platonic forms provides a structure through which to illustrate the subconscious, itself disorderly and irrational. Cemin\u2019s personal mythology, articulated through a diverse array of media, shapes, and scales, simultaneously pays homage to structure and embraces the inherent complexity of forms, which change and mutate ceaselessly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam Blake said that ‘Eternity is in love with the Productions of Time,’ but, I believe that the Productions of Time are also in love with Eternity, and the result is Myth,\u201d explains Cemin. \u201cMyth and Math is a continuation of this thought that has been the guiding line of my work. Forms come out of Chaos. They represent order but they bring Chaos within themselves, then to it they return.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sculptures such as Athina and Cherub refer directly to mythological figures, products of a different time that have been made eternal through storytelling and art. Love and Mathematics explicitly combines the emotional and the rational, two seemingly contrasting concepts which Cemin is able to jointly explore with his chosen artistic medium. A de Amor takes the letter \u201cA\u201d and twists it beyond recognition, simultaneously destroying its meaning and creating a new interpretation for an old symbol.<\/p>\n

Saint Clair Cemin was born and raised in the rural town of Cruz Alta, Brazil, and went on to study at the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States as well as abroad and is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fonds National d\u2019Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island City, NY; Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden; The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, among many others. Cemin currently lives in New York and has studios in Beijing and Red Hook, New York.
\nThe exhibition will coincide with Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper 1951 – 1991 at 515 West 27th Street and Sigmar Polke: The Distance to Things \u2013 The Proximity to Things at 297 Tenth Ave.<\/p>\n

For more information on Saint Clair Cemin, please contact Nicholas Onley, nick@paulkasmingallery.com.<\/p>\n

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