SPENCER FINCH - Yvon Lambert
SPENCER FINCH - Yvon Lambert
SPENCER FINCH - Yvon Lambert
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Press Release<br />
<strong>SPENCER</strong> <strong>FINCH</strong><br />
9 June - 2 July 2011<br />
<strong>Yvon</strong> <strong>Lambert</strong> is pleased to present Spencer Finch’s 3rd exhibition at the gallery. The show will open June 9th,<br />
2011 and will be on view until July 2nd, 2011.<br />
The exhibition opens on Thursday, June 9 from 6-8pm and will be on view until July 2, 2011.<br />
Using light as his medium, Spencer Finch’s works deal with notions of perception and the experience of time. He<br />
keeps pursuing an ineffable moment where past and present, memory and instant meet; personal desire and world<br />
history collide.<br />
After visiting loaded, historic places such as the cave of Lascaux, this new project relates to William Shakespeare<br />
play, Hamlet. Through an LED installation, Spencer Finch offers a sparkling fireflies night, each light playing a<br />
different character part, their intensity and movement representing each personality and move. Spencer Finch<br />
creates an atmosphere exalting mystery and fantasy - a dream place combining darkness and light, angst and<br />
delight. The arisen dichotomy is inspired by the 3 rd act of Hamlet where the tension reaches its peak – the act<br />
shedding the light on the characters’ real nature, revealing its hero in the sublime of his existential contemplation<br />
(To be or not to be?) but also in the uttermost cruelty of his human condition.<br />
Exploring through light the spiritual and emotional conflicts of each individual, Spencer Finch embraces a certain<br />
idea of romanticism and invites the audience to reflexion and introspection.<br />
Spencer Finch is born in New Haven in Connecticut in 1962; he lives and works in Brooklyn.<br />
In 2007, his work featured in a retrospective at the MASS MoCA of North Adams, Massachusetts.<br />
Spencer Finch has a current exhibition at the Folkestone Triennal in the United Kingdom and his next 2011<br />
exhibitions will take place at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, at the Indianapolis<br />
Museum in Indiana, and also at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum in Illinois.<br />
Please contact Didier Barroso with any press inquiries at didier@yvon-lambert.com or +33142710933
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