RUBENS GHENOV Aft Key September 6th – October 6th, 2018 Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
INDEX Introduction Aft Key Biography Credits
INTRODUCTION Morgan Lehman is delighted to present recent paintings by Rubens Ghenov in the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. 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.
RUBENS GHENOV | GONG FU CHA FOR OBALUAIE, THE ONTOLOGIST EARRING | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 60 X 48 IN | (152.40 x 121.92 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | A GRANDE BORBOLETA, MIDSTRO/ERRANTE INTRO | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 60 X 48 IN | (152.40 x 121.92 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | RAAG MARIPOSA | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 60 X 48 IN | (152.40 x 121.92 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | OTAKE BANGUELO | 2017 | ACRYLIC AND GRAPHITE ON LINEN 20 X 16 IN | (50.80 x 40.64 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | OTAKE BANGUELO | 2017 | INSTALLATION VIEW
RUBENS GHENOV | AFT KEY | 2018 | INSTALLATION VIEW
RUBENS GHENOV | UN-EVENING OWLSEED | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 11 X 8 IN | (27.94 X 20.32 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | U SHAPE CHOIR, GEOMETRY OF A BLUE GHOST | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 11 X 8 IN | (27.94 X 20.32 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | AFT KEY | 2018| INSTALLATION VIEW
RUBENS GHENOV |TOKONOMA FOR ABSALOM, CELAN & CLARICE | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 20 X 16 IN | (50.80 X 40.64 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | AFT KEY | 2018 | INSTALLATION VIEW
RUBENS GHENOV | HOOVED GHOST | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 20 X 16 IN | (50.80 X 40.64 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | HOOVED GHOST | 2018 | INSTALLATION VIEW
RUBENS GHENOV | STILL LIFE WITH HAIR | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 20 X 16 IN | (50.80 X 40.64 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | PHROPHETHEKA OKKYUNG, TIGRESS IN 3 | 2018 | ACRYLIC ON LINEN 20 X 16 IN | (50.80 x 40.64 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | THE OCCASION OF AN AFTERNOON SHELF, HALF SYLLABLE | 2017 | ACRYLIC AND GRAPHITE ON LINEN 48 x 60 IN | (121.92 x 152.40 CM)
RUBENS GHENOV | AFT KEY | 2018 | INSTALLATION VIEW
RUBENS GHENOV | AFT KEY | 2018 | INSTALLATION VIEW
BIOGRAPHY Rubens Ghenov was born in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to the US in 1989. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art (1999) and his Master of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (2010). Ghenov has shown nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at Geoffrey Young Gallery (MA), TSA Brooklyn (NYC), Woodmere Art Museum (PA), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2013, he co-curated with Dona Nelson the 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum. Ghenov has been featured in Title Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. His work is included in many prominent collections, including Fidelity Investments and the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently a professor of painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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