New Dimensions
Geometric shapes bend and interlock. Arcs, circles and straight lines pile up on top of each other. Shadows intersect and create deep crevices. These are works by Wyatt Kahn (b. 1983), a New York-based artist who, for the past ten years, has been shaping wooden stretchers to produce canvas-covered wall reliefs. In doing so, he engages with Modernist legacies of painting and sculpture.
Kahnâs newest pieces, on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, are a stark, bright white. “I like to think of them as bare because I did not make them white, rather I left them unprimed and ungessoed as they were. This places the objects in a sort of limbo.â They also mark a point of departure for the artist, who usually works in two-dimensions. âThis past year made me look back at the foundational structures of my practice and add layers of chaos on top of them.â Planes that would usually radiate outwards, right and left, now stack upwards â obstructing and complicating the picture.