Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present Rejoice: Drawing and Sculpture, the gallery’s fifth exhibition with the US-American artist Joe Bradley.
It’s all in the title of exhibition: Rejoice after a long day/week/month/year of the world putting your body through its paces. Emerge, like the red orb in the magisterial sculpture Moonlight, into a new phase. The spiritual journey of mind-body is as classic and serious a subject as Joe Bradley could’ve approached, and he does so in these sculptures, as one must, with a sense of humor. His wry, counter-intuitive approach honors the journey while winking at its difficulty: That bulb is tethered to the ground. Each of the sculptures in the present group is as solid and allusive as Bradley’s drawings are ephemeral and self-contained. His always recognizable scrawl harvests iconography and marks from a net thrown wide and far through time. These sculptures come together from objects found, made, and assembled with a goal of depicting a mind-body state.
