Rubens Ghenov | Aft Key: Solo exhibition
Past exhibition
Installation Views
Works
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Rubens Ghenov, A Grande Borboleta, Midstro/Errante Intro, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Raag Mariposa, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Gong Fu Cha for Obaluaiê, The Ontologist Earring, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, The Occasion of an Afternoon Shelf, Half Syllable, 2017
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Rubens Ghenov, The Ontology of Page 4, 3AM Raag, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Two Mouth Slow Dance Mask, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Tokonoma for Absalom, Celan & Clarice, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Hooved Ghost, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Still Life with Hair, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Phrophetheka Okkyung, Tigress in 3, 2018
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Rubens Ghenov, Otakē Banguelo, 2017
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Rubens Ghenov, Un-evening Owlseed, 2018
Press release
This show, entitled Aft Key, includes three bodies of work made between 2017 and 2018, which take as their subject the late Spanish poet Angelico Morandá’s interests in ideas of time, ontology, sound, and mantras. Here, aft is to be read as a shortened version of the preposition, after, which, for Morandá, denotes the middle stage of descent (or diagonal time). Diagonal time can be thought of as the line that links the metaphysical world of the vertical (concerning the intellectual, conscious, cosmic) with the horizontal (considering the terrestrial, pausal, dreamlike), within the right triangle structure that informs Morandá’s poetry and meditative practice. Aft is thus both between space but also beyond, converging backward in time to the present in a cyclical triangular motion. In this way, form leads to concept and concept back into form, as Ghenov mines the rich philosophy of the poet to create his own lyrical, mystical paintings.
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