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Elias Hansen: blown glasses preserving moments of anger

 

No writings can better explain the solo show by the conceptual glass-blower Elias Hansen currently at Jonathan Viner, London, than a double string made with the titles of the artworks on display. String one: “10 pounds says you’re fucked. Even love’s got a long ways to save you from this. If fucking would’ve fixed this, I’d have fucked the shit out of you a long fucking time ago. I’m sure your sad; so shut the fuck up. If we spoke the same language, you’d have stopped listening a long time ago. Fuck you; and everything. Happy enough, I guess”. String two: “Take a nap, this one ain’t changing soon. Of course, a lot of things are sad; but not as sad as this. Written on the walls, writing on your grave. Smoking and crying”.

 

Additional details: Elias Hansen was born 1979, he lives and works in upstate New York. Recent exhibitions include I’m a long way from home and I don’t really know these roads, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Should be fine, Maccarone, New York; We’re just in it for the money (with Oscar Tuazon), Balice Hertling, Paris; Heart to Hand (with Oscar Tuazon), Swiss Institute, New York and Ain’t quite right with the Reader, A Palazzo, Brescia. He will be included in the upcoming Yokohama Triennale.

 

 

September 22, 2014