Opening Reception | ASMA: Ideal Space for Music and In Practice: Tony Chrenka

Join us for an opening reception celebrating ASMA: Ideal Space for Music and In Practice: Tony Chrenka.

ASMA: Ideal Space for Music
On view Oct 31, 2024 - Feb 3, 2025

SculptureCenter is pleased to present the first institutional exhibition in the United States of artist duo ASMA. Their sculpturally-rooted works stretch the possibilities of materials such as silicon, resin, bronze, steel, or glass, often blending artisan craft techniques with synthetic and industrial processes. Their research methodology integrates intuitive responsiveness to a site with conceptual explorations found within the arenas of mythology, psychology, and posthumanism, viewed through a metamodern lens.

For their SculptureCenter commission, ASMA presents Ideal Space for Music, a shattered narrative tapestry with sculptural characters whose presence evokes theatricality. Drawing on the metaphorical capacity of SculptureCenter’s lower level as a place of subconscious nature, works in the exhibition will open a conversation around desire and fragmentation. ASMA explores the relationship of desire with the development of language and written literature through the image of joint articulation and within the symbol of ball-jointed dolls (BJDs, as they are referred to by their manufacturers). The exhibition will feature a newly commissioned series of reflective sculptures, detailed with low-relief compositions. Accompanying these works, a group of dramatic sculptural stagings featuring constructed characters will revisit the Frankensteinian notion of disintegration, evoking themes of contamination and hybridity in the process of self-becoming.

In Practice: Tony Chrenka
On view Oct 31, 2024 - Dec 22, 2024

Tony Chrenka’s studio practice pursues questions of work and perceptions of the progression of time through photography, drawing, and installation. At SculptureCenter, Chrenka will present a series of wooden relief sculptures and a related wall treatment in a work that posits sculpture as an ongoing manipulation of presence and absence in space over bounded intervals of time.