<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm delighted to present the first version of <i>Evidentiary Realism</i> with historical, established and emerging artists and thinkers featured in an exhibition in NYC from Feb 28th.<br><b><br><i>Evidentiary Realism</i> is a platform featuring artists engaged in Investigative, Forensic, and Documentary art practices.<br></b><br>Everything is on the website: <a href="http://EvidentiaryRealism.net">http://EvidentiaryRealism.net</a><br><br>It
aims to articulate a particular form of realism in art that portrays
and reveals evidence from complex social systems, with prioritizing
formal aspects of visual language and mediums. The truth-seeking
artworks featured explore the notion of evidence and its modes of
representation.<br><br>First artists selected:<br><b>Nora Al-Badri &
Jan Nikolai Nelles, Amy Balkin, Josh Begley, James Bridle, Ingrid
Burrington, Harun Farocki, Hans Haacke, Thomas Keenan & Eyal
Weizman, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Mark Lombardi, Kirsten Stolle, Suzanne
Treister.</b><br>Curated and organized by <b>Paolo Cirio</b>.<br><br>The first version of <i>Evidentiary Realism</i> exhibition is presented by NOME Gallery + Fridman Gallery in NYC.<br>February 28 – March 31, 2017. At 287 Spring St, New York, NY 10013. <br>Artists talk moderated by <b>Hrag Vartanian</b> and opening 5-9pm on Feb. 28th<br><br><br><i>Evidentiary Realism</i>
reflects on post-9/11 geopolitics, increasing economic inequalities,
the erosion of civil rights, and environmental disasters. It builds on
the renewed appreciation of the exposure of truth in the context of the
cases of WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, the Panama Papers, and the recent
efforts to contend with the post-factual era.<br><br>Contemporary
sharing and processing of information in an open global collaborative
environment entails an amplified sense of reality. Leaks, discoveries,
and facts are collectively verified and disseminated among numerous
distribution networks. Techniques of presentation and engaging the
public have been evolving in the same direction—through reconfiguration
of media and languages, the evidence is presented in a variety of
strategies and artifacts in dialogue with contemporary art practices.<br> <br><i>Evidentiary Realism</i>
focuses on artworks that prioritize formal aspects of visual language
and mediums; diverging from journalism and reportage, they strive to
provoke visual pleasure and emotional responses. In the exhibition the
evidence is presented through photography, film, drawing, painting, and
sculpture, with strong references to art history. In particular, these
artists also theoretically articulate the aesthetic, social, and
documentary functions of their mediums in relation to the subject matter
they investigate.<br><br>Some of the evidentiary realist works break
down visibility to abstraction to underline the limits of seeing, while
others use figuration or synthesis to enhance insight. The encoded
information and nuanced details behind the works point to large, highly
complex realities that come into focus through the factual evidence
shown. Yet these enigmatic and seductive works serve as evidence of the
opaque and intricate apparatus of our reality.<br><br>The process of
translating investigations and documents into artworks underpins the
exhibition. Such practices adopted by emerging and established artists
of today can be traced to the works of Hans Haacke, Mark Lombardi, and
Harun Farocki, who were some of the first artists invested in decoding
complex systems of power and conveying them in bold artistic forms.<br><br>The
creation of evidentiary artworks is the realism of today's world, which
is trying to control, predict, and quantify itself. Evidentiary
realists examine such complexity to condemn, document, and inform
through compelling artworks, giving form to a particular documentary and
investigative art practice.<br><i><br><br>Concept and text by Paolo Cirio. 2016-2017.<br>Everything is on the website:<br><a href="http://EvidentiaryRealism.net">http://EvidentiaryRealism.net</a></i><br><br>Thanks for your interest.<br></div>Paolo.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span>_____________________________________________________<br><br>Paolo Cirio - Artist<br><br>Web: <a href="https://PaoloCirio.net" target="_blank">https://PaoloCirio.net</a><br><br>Social Media<br>Fl: <a href="https://flickr.com/paolocirio" target="_blank">https://flickr.com/paolocirio</a><br>Tw: <a href="https://twitter.com/paolocirio" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/paolocirio</a><br>Yt: <a href="https://youtube.com/c/paolocirio" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/c/paolocirio</a><br>Li: <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/paolocirio" target="_blank">https://linkedin.com/in/paolocirio</a><br>Fb: <a href="https://facebook.com/paolo.cirio.art" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/paolo.cirio.art</a><br>Ig: <a href="https://instagram.com/paolo.cirio.art" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/paolo.cirio.art</a><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br></span></div></div></div></div>
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