ERNESTO KLAR
Invisible Disparities
March 7 - April 18, 2015
Postmasters is pleased to present Invisible Disparities, a multi-faceted
project of Venezuelan artist Ernesto Klar. Truly epic in its scope,
Invisible Disparities proposes an experimental montage of cultural
history, a reading of temporality in our material world.
In 2011, Ernesto Klar embarked on a three-year journey to collect dust from
around the world. He began by selecting locations - forty of them - where
a plurality of histories, times, and potentialities physically co-exist
within their man-made infrastructural elements. Locations range from
well-known to unfamiliar historical sites, from ancient sites to
contemporary past sites. The West Bank, Rwanda, Hiroshima, Hollywood,
Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Warsaw, Petra, Moscow, Dhaka, Havana,
Sydney, and Ho Chi Minh City are among them. Klar traveled to each
location to collect, store, and archive its dust. These processes
are methodically documented on video, where the artist is seen always
wearing the same uniform and using a portable duster to vacuum the dust.
This performative action, the actual vacuuming of dust, represents for
the artist a centrifugal gesture that instigates, both literally and
metaphorically, the convergence of disparate temporal, historical,
and material relationships. After having collected dust at all sites,
the artist created a sculpture by mixing together and then fusing the
dust under intense heat. Klar refers to the resulting sculptural work
as one anthropic rock, or a man-made rock, in which invisible
disparities join one another and transmute into new matter. Separately,
Klar has created an artist book that archives individual dust samples
for every site in hermetically sealed glass vials. All forty videos,
anthropic rock and the book will be on view.
Ernesto Klar is a Venezuelan artist based in New York City. His works have
been included in recent exhibitions at Zentrum fur Internationale Lichtkunst
in Unna, Germany; La Gaite Lyrique in Paris, France; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
in Santiago, Chile; FILE Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sala Mendoza in Caracas,
Venezuela; and Microwave Festival in Hong Kong. His awards include the Artist
Fellowship in Electronic Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and
the Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, among
others. Recent participation at art residencies include FAAP in São Paulo,
Brazil; WAA in Mumbai, India; Maumau in Istanbul, Turkey; and HKAC in Hong Kong.
Klar holds an MFA from Parsons The New School for Design, and a BMD from
Berklee College of Music. He is a faculty member at Parsons The New School
for Design and The New School for Film and Media Studies in New York City.
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
5-channel HD video, color + sound
installation view
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities, Anthropic Rock
2015
fused dust and glass
4.8 x 2.9 x 4.7 inches
unique
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities, Anthropic Rock
2015
fused dust and glass
4.8 x 2.9 x 4.7 inches
unique
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities, Artist Book
2015
forty (40) hermetically sealed glass vials, dust, unique diagram
11 5/8 x 7 x 3 7/16 inches
closed: 29 3/8 x 36 1/4 inches, unfolded
edition of 3 + AP
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities, Artist Book
2015
detail
forty (40) hermetically sealed glass vials, dust,
11 5/8 x 7 x 3 7/16 inches
closed: 29 3/8 x 36 1/4 inches, unfolded
edition of 3 + AP
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities, Artist Book
2015
detail
unique diagram
11 5/8 x 7 x 3 7/16 inches
closed:
29 3/8 x 36 1/4 inches, unfolded
edition of 3 + AP
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
5-channel HD video, color + sound
installation view
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
5-channel HD video, color + sound
installation view
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel HD video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still
Ernesto Klar
Invisible Disparities
2011-2014
multi-channel video, anthropic rock, artist book
video still