{"id":7864,"date":"2014-08-30T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:24:19","slug":"wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Kahn&#8217;s dancing puzzles go sentimental at the Zurich art weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7864 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/dsc_6420\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_6420-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7865\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7865'>\n\t\t\t\tWyatt Khan, Rain Check, 2014. Acrylic on Linen on Canvas on Panel, 204x204x4,5cm\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/dsc_6419\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_6419-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7868\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7868'>\n\t\t\t\tWyatt Khan, Rain Check, 2014. Acrylic on Linen on Canvas on Panel, 204x204x4,5cm\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/dsc_6432\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_6432-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7866\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7866'>\n\t\t\t\tWyatt Khan, Bad Joke, 2014. Acrylic on Linen on Canvas on Panel, 213x178x4,5cm\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/dsc_6426\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_6426-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7867\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7867'>\n\t\t\t\t\nWyatt Khan, Road Trip, 2014. Acrylic on Linen on Canvas on Panel, 137x306x4,5cm\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/dsc_6423\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_6423-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7869\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7869'>\n\t\t\t\tWyatt Khan, Strumin&#8217;, 2014. Acrylic on Linen on Canvas on Panel, 207x213x4,5cm\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/30\/wyatt-kahns-dancing-puzzles-go-sentimental-at-the-zurich-art-weekend\/dsc_6427\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_6427-480x321.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7871\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7871'>\n\t\t\t\tWyatt Khan, exhibition view, 2014\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of expectation for Wyatt Khan first solo show at Eva Presenhuber in Zurich and, as expected, all the works were already sold out on the opening night. Apparently the formula hasn&#8217;t changed a lot, and shaped MDF stretcher panels are still marking the artist&#8217;s art practice. This time however the variation lies in the kind of canvases he employs and the patters he deals with. A hint of childish, delicate, soft, pastel color turns the collision of the portions into a sort of fantastic dance between them and their proximity creating symbols: a bulb, a violin, an umbrella, one hand. Now angles, curves, lines, don&#8217;t express any tension, but the clumsy movement of a friendly game of identities. And that is probably the bright side of Kahn&#8217;s brilliant solution to the problem of the two-dimensional art. By using surfaces instead of supports he doesn&#8217;t need images to be sentimental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There was a lot of expectation for Wyatt Khan first solo show at Eva Presenhuber in Zurich and, as expected, all the works were already sold out on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1526],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-wyatt-kahn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}