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CLOSING TOMORROW: Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Pedestrian Space 🏃🚫🚶♀️
A review by Michael Archer appears in the July-August issue of Art Monthly: “The title of Bogdan Ablozhnyy’s exhibition of sculpture and photographs, ‘Pedestrian Space’, is taken from a text by Fred Sandback in the late 1960s in which he lights upon the term in an effort to identify a site more amenable to art than the rarefied atmosphere of an institution: a space in which an artwork could find its place alongside all other everyday things. In Robert Rauschenberg’s words it is the gap between art and life, or the zone of Tony Smith’s drive down the unfinished New Jersey turnpike at night, where all is present but not yet fixed or framed. What they wanted was art that led to an active encounter with the world around them, where one might discern, as Sandback writes, ‘the utopian glimmering of art and life happily cohabiting’. […]”
Pictured here: And Say the Animal Responded?, 2026. Magic 8 Balls, selenite, bow horsehair, aluminium, epoxy. 37.3 x 70 x 35 cm, 14 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.
A review by Michael Archer appears in the July-August issue of Art Monthly: “The title of Bogdan Ablozhnyy’s exhibition of sculpture and photographs, ‘Pedestrian Space’, is taken from a text by Fred Sandback in the late 1960s in which he lights upon the term in an effort to identify a site more amenable to art than the rarefied atmosphere of an institution: a space in which an artwork could find its place alongside all other everyday things. In Robert Rauschenberg’s words it is the gap between art and life, or the zone of Tony Smith’s drive down the unfinished New Jersey turnpike at night, where all is present but not yet fixed or framed. What they wanted was art that led to an active encounter with the world around them, where one might discern, as Sandback writes, ‘the utopian glimmering of art and life happily cohabiting’. […]”
Pictured here: And Say the Animal Responded?, 2026. Magic 8 Balls, selenite, bow horsehair, aluminium, epoxy. 37.3 x 70 x 35 cm, 14 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.
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