Charles Gaines — Grids: Numbers and Trees III, and Palm Trees II — Max Hetzler Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: November 26, 2016 → January 14, 2017

Los Angeles — based artist Charles Gaines has engaged in conceptual art for four decades. Critical thinking is central to his practice that includes photographs and drawings plotted out on grids. His work is informed by various sources, from John Cage, Sol Lewitt’s wall drawings, German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, to the esoteric philosophy of Tantric Buddhism.

Gaines Charles, Vue de l’exposition Grids: Numbers and Trees III, and Palm Trees II, Galerie Max Hetzler

Gaines has found systematic ways of “generating imagery”, working in series and plotting numbers on grids, thus questioning representation. His approach is a formal way of breaking down images into serial patterns. Gaines is interested in the gap that emerges between the systems and the charted subjects by analogy on the one hand and with rational thoughts of perception.