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    In Practice: Bastien Gachet

    In Practice: Bastien Gachet

    Sep 19–Oct 21, 2024

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    Installation view, In Practice: Bastien Gachet, SculptureCenter, New York, 2024. Commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton

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    Opening Reception
    Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 6-8pm

    Bastien Gachet’s work uses new approaches to fabrication and installation to draw out the immanent, emergent, and durational qualities of art. Gachet meticulously hand-produces objects and installation elements across media, subtly elaborating on and bending parallel categories that have been used consistently, if inadequately, to define recent art: the “pre-intentional” and intentional; the found and the made; the real and the fake, expanding into notions of the “fake-real” and the “fake-fake” (in the artist’s terminology). In his forthcoming exhibition at SculptureCenter, Gachet collects and organizes these contrasting modes into what he has called an “object-based dramaturgy,” a structure of meaning opening itself across unsettlingly constructed and resonant environments.

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    Aug 22, 2024

    Hyperallergic Fall 2024 New York Art Guide
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    In Practice is made possible by the Elaine Graham Weitzen Commissioning Fund for Emerging Artists, which supports the production of new work by artists selected from SculptureCenter's annual open call. This landmark endowment established in 2024 reflects Elaine Graham Weitzen’s (1920-2017) lifelong commitment to emerging artists and her exuberant support of new ideas in art. Weitzen served as a devoted Trustee of SculptureCenter from 1987 to 2017.

    Major support for the In Practice program is provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In Practice is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

    Generous support for In Practice: Bastien Gachet is provided by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and la Ville de Genève.



    Support for all of SculptureCenter’s work with artists from abroad is provided by the International Council: Anonymous, Stephen Cheng, Micki Meng, Yan Du, Thomas Berger, and Füsun Eczacıbaşı - SAHA.

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