Sasha Meret
DEcember 12, 2016 – January 23, 2017
Curated by Beth S. Gersh-Nešić
Opening reception with the artist
Monday, December 12, 2016
6:00PM – 8:00PM
235 East 59th Street, New York, NY
“The main ingredients in art are mystery, surprise, and spontaneity. You have to create the environment for the accidents to breathe.. to invite happy accidents. This is part of my process.”
Rafael Gallery is pleased to present…
Sasha Meret: Selected Works, which complements this internationally-acclaimed artist’s participation in the exhibition Bedazzled, concurrently on view at Lehman College Gallery through January 14th. Our show begins December 12th with an opening reception on the first day from 6 - 8 PM. Curated by Beth S. Gersh-Nešić, the director of New York Arts Exchange, this particular exhibition contextualizes Sasha Meret’s extraordinarily complex installation, Agendada: Books of Hours, 2010-2016, at Lehman College, through its grouping of informative sculptures, photographs, and paintings. Meret’s entire body of work draws from the influence of Dada, Surrealism, Conceptual Art, and Quantum Mechanics - among many other sources. It is a heady mix that infuses Meret’s visual language with a phantasmagorical expression, evident in his elaborate structures, assemblages, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, and videos - on view in the exhibition space and also in photographs. “The main ingredients in art are mystery, surprise, and spontaneity,” Meret explained. “You have to create the environment for the accidents to breathe.. to invite happy accidents. This is part of my process.”
The son of Romanian and Russian parents, Sasha Meret was born in Transylvania in 1955. He completed an MA in economics in 1977 and then moved to New York in 1987 to pursue his true passion, art, at Columbia University. There, he studied printmaking with Tony Harrison. In 1994, he joined the International Art Group “Gaia” in France. Over the last 26 years, Meret has exhibited all over the world, most notably in China, Japan, Italy, France, Switzerland, and the US. Recently, he orchestrated an exhibition and performance piece at AmyD Arte Spazio in Milan. He has been honored with an exhibition at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. His wearable fashion was featured in XEX Magazine (October 5, 2012).
