Rhond Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky
Sun in an Empty Room*, sculptures, 2009
June 18 to August 30, 2009
Opening June 18, 2009, 5 pm
Hanging Plants, sculpture, 2007.
Vancouver-based artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky continue to develop their study of sculpture as a living entity following their previous series producing tinfoil casts of cars. Their work at the Darling Foundry is comprised of mutating sculptures of unpredictable forms that live at the mercy of the artists and the exhibition space. Made of papier maché, flour, water, and pigment, these submissive sculptures are, over time, coloured, blanched, scarred, and layered, evoking the effects of transitory phenomena and leaving room for the interpretation of illusory objects. Thus the recognisable form at the basis of each piece grows unrecognisable and ‘aformed’. This evolution becomes a minimalist narrative that grates against the creative process; it is a deformation of the work. The deconstruction will continue after this show at other exhibition spaces throughout 2009.
Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky have been collaborating since 2003, and have presented numerous exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Japan. They were recently nominated for the prestigious Sobey Art Award.
Follow the evolution of the installation in pictures.
* The title is borrowed from an Edward Hopper piece.
Perch, sculpture, 2007.