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Darren Bader

DARREN BADER

E/either e/Either n/Neither N/neither Andrew Kreps Gallery 7 April–12 May 2018 537 West 22nd Street
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‘What speaks to you now may never speak toyou again, but the instant you are touched, you volunteer something akin to forever (eternity as it could be called). It isn’t memory enough, but evidence of the unimaginable made human (which could be thought of as living itself).’- Gene Wolfe, Nightside of the Long Sun

  • Feeling is both greater and lesser than its alternatives
  • Biography arrives to lend pain false quarter
  • Voices nearly everywhere
  • Words are implacable and inconstantbut must remain well-intended
  • (Give/alert when possible
  • Decide/desire if/when measurable/convenient
  • Tarry with(in)/without design
  • Venture refusal of belief / Dispose ofunforeseen consequences
  • Elucidate in (fallow) faith
  • Never nd forgiveness until)
  • Answers may prove pleasant
  • Natalia Goncharova, If Indeed a Figure (Wilner)

all punctuation and two words courtesy Darren Bader

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This show is most often about the kindness, frankness, and aptness of words. It also wouldn’tbe without the persistence of words, their inanities, obstinacies, redundancies. It’s about the way (much more than the where) words may appear — the seer, the reader, the hearer, the listener, the speaker, and certainly the self that meets words in the mind (as distinct from the thinker). The show is also about object(nes)s, because it has to be. But perhaps words should speak for themselves.

Below are words naming what (cl)aim to be [art]works:

  • Lawrence Weiner study/encomium
  • Publishing study
  • hagiography study
  • my father’s piano
  • printed image
  • printed image
  • Yoga Mats 1**
  • fred
  • 12 marketing execs meet with 12 legislators (from at least 7 different nations) to hatch a plan. The plan is then sold to an individual from the private sector who must see it through.
  • a tidy abyss
  • audio le
  • Book (soap)
  • toenail implant(s)
  • vifth chrysanthemum
  • printed image*
  • untitled (Toys Talking)
  • isn’t still (enough); still isn’t (enough)

*dimensions variable

**a work with Jesse Willenbring

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About the Artist

Darren Bader (Bridgeport, CT, 1978) lives and works in New York. Solo shows of his work held in institutions include (@mined_oud) Madre, Naples, (2017–2018);_ Meaning and Difference_, The Power Station, Dallas (2017);_ Reading Writing Arithmetic_, Radio Athènes-Institute for the advancement of contemporary visual culture, Athens (2015);_ Where Is a Bicycle’s Vagina (and Other Inquiries) or Around the Samovar, 1857_, Oslo (2012);_ Images_, MoMA-PS1, New York (2012). Awarded the Calder Prize in 2013, Bader has taken part in numerous group exhibitions and biennials including the following: 13éme Biennale de Lyon. La vie moderne, Lyon (2015);_ Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime_, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2015); The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2014);_ Antigrazioso_, Palais de Tokyo, Parigi (2013);_ Something About a Tree_, FLAG Foundation, New York (2013);_ Empire State_, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2013);_ Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap_, The Calder Foundation, New York (2012);_ Greater New York_, MoMA-PS1, New York (2010)

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About the Gallery
Andrew Kreps Gallery was founded in New York in 1996. Widening its original focus on emerging American artists, the program shortly thereafter expanded to include international artists, many of whom had their first exhibitions in the United States or New York at the gallery. In 2013, Andrew Kreps Gallery relocated to 537 W. 22nd Street, and opened an additional project space at 535 W. 22nd Street. The gallery represents the work of 29 internationally active artists. Recent additions to the gallery’s roster include Michael E. Smith, Camille Blatrix, Liz Magor, and João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva. Andrew Kreps Gallery additionally represents the estate of Robert Overby. The gallery regularly participates in the following art fairs and projects: Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, the Armory Show, Frieze New York, Frieze London, and MiArt.
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