Coarse’s ‘Because I Wanted You To Know’ at Corey Helford Gallery

German artists Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk , collectively referred to as Coarse, will open As a result of I wished You To Know solo at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday, October seventh, 2023. The brand new exhibition permits the viewer the privilege of peering into the ultimate phases of an exuberant, wild ceremonial dinner with the members blissfully unaware of being seen.

The gathering of sculptures overflow with candy desserts, flowing cream and jiggly jello. As with a lot of Coarse’s artwork, the eye-catching items ofter layers of which means and reflection. As Landwehr feedback, the work is partly a recognition of the profoundly ephemeral nature of life: “In getting older, I’ve thought rather a lot concerning the fragility of life and the way we expect lovely experiences will repeat themselves sooner or later, however as a rule they don’t. For this sequence I wished to discover the disconnect between being in an ideal second however concurrently feeling as whether it is already over. As a result of that is such a private exhibition, many of the sculptures characteristic our most well-known character, noop, who’s my self-portrait. The identify noop is shortened type of ‘non-operational’ and hints at how we’re all powerless to the way in which life carries us ahead, oftentimes in opposition to our will.”

Whereas Coarse’s artwork toys have at all times prioritized the previous over the latter, this present frees themselves from product constraints together with materials, complexity, dimension and maybe to a lesser diploma, theme.

Coarse || As a result of I Needed You To Know
Opening: Saturday, October seventh 2023

Corey Helford Gallery
571 S. Anderson St.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
310.287.2340