Singular Object

Jean Baudrillard, Sarah Braman, Isabelle Cornaro,
M.C. Escher, Katsumi Hayakawa, Nir Hod,
Jenny Holzer, 
Ivan Navarro, Francesca Pasquali,
Jon Rafman, 
Evan Robarts, Will Ryman,
James Turrell & Dustin Yellin

Organized with Jenny Mushkin Goldman


53W53 Gallery, New York
April 3–21, 2017

Singular Object

Jean Baudrillard, Sarah Braman, Isabelle Cornaro,
M.C. Escher, Katsumi Hayakawa, Nir Hod,
Jenny Holzer, 
Ivan Navarro, Francesca Pasquali,
Jon Rafman, 
Evan Robarts, Will Ryman,
James Turrell & Dustin Yellin

Organized with Jenny Mushkin Goldman


53W53 Gallery, New York
April 3–21, 2017

Singular Object

Jean Baudrillard, Sarah Braman, Isabelle Cornaro,
M.C. Escher, Katsumi Hayakawa, Nir Hod,
Jenny Holzer, 
Ivan Navarro, Francesca Pasquali,
Jon Rafman, 
Evan Robarts, Will Ryman,
James Turrell & Dustin Yellin

Organized with Jenny Mushkin Goldman


53W53 Gallery, New York
April 3–21, 2017

Singular Object

Jean Baudrillard, Sarah Braman, Isabelle Cornaro,
M.C. Escher, Katsumi Hayakawa, Nir Hod,
Jenny Holzer, 
Ivan Navarro, Francesca Pasquali,
Jon Rafman, 
Evan Robarts, Will Ryman,
James Turrell & Dustin Yellin

Organized with Jenny Mushkin Goldman


53W53 Gallery, New York
April 3–21, 2017

Singular Object

Jean Baudrillard, Sarah Braman, Isabelle Cornaro,
M.C. Escher, Katsumi Hayakawa, Nir Hod,
Jenny Holzer, 
Ivan Navarro, Francesca Pasquali,
Jon Rafman, 
Evan Robarts, Will Ryman,
James Turrell & Dustin Yellin

Organized with Jenny Mushkin Goldman


53W53 Gallery, New York
April 3–21, 2017

201704210019

Jenny Holzer
Lustmord, Erlauf, Arno, Blue, 1999
Horizontal LED sign: blue diodes, stainless steel housing
51 × 58 × 3 inches / 13.3 × 146.6 × 7.6 cm

Jenny Holzer
Lustmord, Erlauf, Arno, Blue, 1999
Horizontal LED sign: blue diodes, stainless steel housing
51 × 58 × 3 inches / 13.3 × 146.6 × 7.6 cm

Jenny Holzer
Lustmord, Erlauf, Arno, Blue, 1999
Horizontal LED sign: blue diodes, stainless steel housing
51 × 58 × 3 inches / 13.3 × 146.6 × 7.6 cm

Jenny Holzer
Lustmord, Erlauf, Arno, Blue, 1999
Horizontal LED sign: blue diodes, stainless steel housing
51 × 58 × 3 inches / 13.3 × 146.6 × 7.6 cm

201704210039

Jon Rafman
Murillo BNPJ, 2014
Digital print mounted on Dibond
48 × 36 inches / 122 × 91 cm

Jon Rafman
Murillo BNPJ, 2014
Digital print mounted on Dibond
48 × 36 inches / 122 × 91 cm

Jon Rafman
Murillo BNPJ, 2014
Digital print mounted on Dibond
48 × 36 inches / 122 × 91 cm

Jon Rafman
Murillo BNPJ, 2014
Digital print mounted on Dibond
48 × 36 inches / 122 × 91 cm

201704210044

Singular Object
Installation view

Singular Object
Installation view

Singular Object
Installation view

Singular Object
Installation view

201704210050

Ivan Navarro
Untitled (Sears Tower), 2011
Neon, wood, paint, Plexiglass, mirror, one-way mirror & electric wiring
63 × 63 × 9 inches /160 × 160 × 22.9 cm

Ivan Navarro
Untitled (Sears Tower), 2011
Neon, wood, paint, Plexiglass, mirror, one-way mirror & electric wiring
63 × 63 × 9 inches /160 × 160 × 22.9 cm

Ivan Navarro
Untitled (Sears Tower), 2011
Neon, wood, paint, Plexiglass, mirror, one-way mirror & electric wiring
63 × 63 × 9 inches /160 × 160 × 22.9 cm

Ivan Navarro
Untitled (Sears Tower), 2011
Neon, wood, paint, Plexiglass, mirror, one-way mirror & electric wiring
63 × 63 × 9 inches /160 × 160 × 22.9 cm

201704210096

James Turrell
Aten Reign, 2015
Archival pigment print
44 × 65 inches / 112 × 165 cm

201704210116
Left:

Jean Baudrillard
Bastille, 1998
Giclée print on pure cotton paper
23 × 35 inches / 60 × 90 cm

Right:Nir Hod
Dictator's home, 2017
Oil on chrome canvas
68 × 48 inches / 172.7 × 123.2 cm
Left:

Jean Baudrillard
Bastille, 1998
Giclée print on pure cotton paper
23 × 35 inches / 60 × 90 cm

Right:Nir Hod
Dictator's home, 2017
Oil on chrome canvas
68 × 48 inches / 172.7 × 123.2 cm
Left:

Jean Baudrillard
Bastille, 1998
Giclée print on pure cotton paper
23 × 35 inches / 60 × 90 cm

Right:Nir Hod
Dictator's home, 2017
Oil on chrome canvas
68 × 48 inches / 172.7 × 123.2 cm
Left:

Jean Baudrillard
Bastille, 1998
Giclée print on pure cotton paper
23 × 35 inches / 60 × 90 cm

Right:Nir Hod
Dictator's home, 2017
Oil on chrome canvas
68 × 48 inches / 172.7 × 123.2 cm
201704210158

Evan Robarts
Dialogue Line, 2017
Plexiglass & hose on wall
72 × 48 × 12 inches / 183 × 122 × 30 cm

Evan Robarts
Dialogue Line, 2017
Plexiglass & hose on wall
72 × 48 × 12 inches / 183 × 122 × 30 cm

Evan Robarts
Dialogue Line, 2017
Plexiglass & hose on wall
72 × 48 × 12 inches / 183 × 122 × 30 cm

Evan Robarts
Dialogue Line, 2017
Plexiglass & hose on wall
72 × 48 × 12 inches / 183 × 122 × 30 cm

201704210177
Left:

Rachel Lee Hovnnian
Reflection RII, 2015
Acrylic on linen, metal, leaf, cast metal, leather in artist’s frame
29 × 29 inches / 51 × 51 cm

Right:Will Ryman
Flag, 2017
Car parts, railroad parts, computer parts, corn, coal,
bullets, arrowheads, chains, shackles, wood, exterior paint

48 × 96 × 5 inches / 122 × 244 × 12 cm
Left:

Rachel Lee Hovnnian
Reflection RII, 2015
Acrylic on linen, metal, leaf, cast metal, leather in artist’s frame
29 × 29 inches / 51 × 51 cm

Right:Will Ryman
Flag, 2017
Car parts, railroad parts, computer parts, corn, coal,
bullets, arrowheads, chains, shackles, wood, exterior paint

48 × 96 × 5 inches / 122 × 244 × 12 cm
Left:

Rachel Lee Hovnnian
Reflection RII, 2015
Acrylic on linen, metal, leaf, cast metal, leather in artist’s frame
29 × 29 inches / 51 × 51 cm

Right:Will Ryman
Flag, 2017
Car parts, railroad parts, computer parts, corn, coal,
bullets, arrowheads, chains, shackles, wood, exterior paint

48 × 96 × 5 inches / 122 × 244 × 12 cm
Left:

Rachel Lee Hovnnian
Reflection RII, 2015
Acrylic on linen, metal, leaf, cast metal, leather in artist’s frame
29 × 29 inches / 51 × 51 cm

Right:Will Ryman
Flag, 2017
Car parts, railroad parts, computer parts, corn, coal,
bullets, arrowheads, chains, shackles, wood, exterior paint

48 × 96 × 5 inches / 122 × 244 × 12 cm
201704210208

Jon Rafman
NAD (Another Type of Flower Green Chrome), 2014
3D Polymide print, chrome plating
18 × 15 × 11 inches  / 45 × 36 × 28 cm

Jon Rafman
NAD (Another Type of Flower Green Chrome), 2014
3D Polymide print, chrome plating
18 × 15 × 11 inches  / 45 × 36 × 28 cm

Jon Rafman
NAD (Another Type of Flower Green Chrome), 2014
3D Polymide print, chrome plating
18 × 15 × 11 inches  / 45 × 36 × 28 cm

Jon Rafman
NAD (Another Type of Flower Green Chrome), 2014
3D Polymide print, chrome plating
18 × 15 × 11 inches  / 45 × 36 × 28 cm

201704210291

Francesca Pasquali
Iceberg, 2016
Transparent plastic drinking straws on mirror polished Plexiglas & metallic frame
39 × 9 inches / 130 × 24 cm

Francesca Pasquali
Iceberg, 2016
Transparent plastic drinking straws on mirror polished Plexiglas & metallic frame
39 × 9 inches / 130 × 24 cm

Francesca Pasquali
Iceberg, 2016
Transparent plastic drinking straws on mirror polished Plexiglas & metallic frame
39 × 9 inches / 130 × 24 cm

Francesca Pasquali
Iceberg, 2016
Transparent plastic drinking straws on mirror polished Plexiglas & metallic frame
39 × 9 inches / 130 × 24 cm

201704210303

Will Ryman
Untitled, 2014
Polyurethane, epoxy, wood, paint
60 × 60 inches /152 × 154 cm

Will Ryman
Untitled, 2014
Polyurethane, epoxy, wood, paint
60 × 60 inches /152 × 154 cm

Will Ryman
Untitled, 2014
Polyurethane, epoxy, wood, paint
60 × 60 inches /152 × 154 cm

Will Ryman
Untitled, 2014
Polyurethane, epoxy, wood, paint
60 × 60 inches /152 × 154 cm

Singular Object presents artworks by modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s architectural philosophies. Since their inception, the visual arts and architecture have been connected. Here, the connectivity is seen through their shared power to destabilize by means of the confrontation between materiality and illusion, the resulting punctum being where their artistic creation is truly achieved.


The artworks are singular in their varied methodology, such as appearance/disappearance, destruction/creation, appropriation/revelation and transparency/obscurity), yet all, in their enigmatism and rebelliousness, trigger a similar metaphysical sequence of constant evolution that goes forward in perpetuity in the cyclical search for the limit of nothingness and finding infiniteness within that which is most concrete. Jean Nouvel's structures, including 53W53, and the visual artworks presented, are singular objects that contain spirit of our age with the vitality for the future, their essence built with the ephemeral mediums of transparency, spontaneity, autonomy, mutation, time, and light. They contain, as Jean Baudrillard described in his influential statement regarding architecture, “a mixture of nostalgia and extreme anticipation.”

Singular Object presents artworks by modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s architectural philosophies. Since their inception, the visual arts and architecture have been connected. Here, the connectivity is seen through their shared power to destabilize by means of the confrontation between materiality and illusion, the resulting punctum being where their artistic creation is truly achieved.


The artworks are singular in their varied methodology, such as appearance/disappearance, destruction/creation, appropriation/revelation and transparency/obscurity), yet all, in their enigmatism and rebelliousness, trigger a similar metaphysical sequence of constant evolution that goes forward in perpetuity in the cyclical search for the limit of nothingness and finding infiniteness within that which is most concrete. Jean Nouvel's structures, including 53W53, and the visual artworks presented, are singular objects that contain spirit of our age with the vitality for the future, their essence built with the ephemeral mediums of transparency, spontaneity, autonomy, mutation, time, and light. They contain, as Jean Baudrillard described in his influential statement regarding architecture, “a mixture of nostalgia and extreme anticipation.”

Singular Object presents artworks by modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s architectural philosophies. Since their inception, the visual arts and architecture have been connected. Here, the connectivity is seen through their shared power to destabilize by means of the confrontation between materiality and illusion, the resulting punctum being where their artistic creation is truly achieved.


The artworks are singular in their varied methodology, such as appearance/disappearance, destruction/creation, appropriation/revelation and transparency/obscurity), yet all, in their enigmatism and rebelliousness, trigger a similar metaphysical sequence of constant evolution that goes forward in perpetuity in the cyclical search for the limit of nothingness and finding infiniteness within that which is most concrete. Jean Nouvel's structures, including 53W53, and the visual artworks presented, are singular objects that contain spirit of our age with the vitality for the future, their essence built with the ephemeral mediums of transparency, spontaneity, autonomy, mutation, time, and light. They contain, as Jean Baudrillard described in his influential statement regarding architecture, “a mixture of nostalgia and extreme anticipation.”

Singular Object presents artworks by modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s architectural philosophies. Since their inception, the visual arts and architecture have been connected. Here, the connectivity is seen through their shared power to destabilize by means of the confrontation between materiality and illusion, the resulting punctum being where their artistic creation is truly achieved.


The artworks are singular in their varied methodology, such as appearance/disappearance, destruction/creation, appropriation/revelation and transparency/obscurity), yet all, in their enigmatism and rebelliousness, trigger a similar metaphysical sequence of constant evolution that goes forward in perpetuity in the cyclical search for the limit of nothingness and finding infiniteness within that which is most concrete. Jean Nouvel's structures, including 53W53, and the visual artworks presented, are singular objects that contain spirit of our age with the vitality for the future, their essence built with the ephemeral mediums of transparency, spontaneity, autonomy, mutation, time, and light. They contain, as Jean Baudrillard described in his influential statement regarding architecture, “a mixture of nostalgia and extreme anticipation.”

Singular Object presents artworks by modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s architectural philosophies. Since their inception, the visual arts and architecture have been connected. Here, the connectivity is seen through their shared power to destabilize by means of the confrontation between materiality and illusion, the resulting punctum being where their artistic creation is truly achieved.


The artworks are singular in their varied methodology, such as appearance/disappearance, destruction/creation, appropriation/revelation and transparency/obscurity), yet all, in their enigmatism and rebelliousness, trigger a similar metaphysical sequence of constant evolution that goes forward in perpetuity in the cyclical search for the limit of nothingness and finding infiniteness within that which is most concrete. Jean Nouvel's structures, including 53W53, and the visual artworks presented, are singular objects that contain spirit of our age with the vitality for the future, their essence built with the ephemeral mediums of transparency, spontaneity, autonomy, mutation, time, and light. They contain, as Jean Baudrillard described in his influential statement regarding architecture, “a mixture of nostalgia and extreme anticipation.”