This Room, 2020. Gummed paper tape, 138 x 108 inches (350.5 x 274.3 cm)
Green on Black, 2017. Acrylic on black corrugated plastic, artist frame, 48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Palisades, 2015. Corrugated plastic, 96 x 153 x 9 1/2 inches (243.8 x 388.6 x 24.1 cm)
Square Duet, 1980. Acrylic and paper on wood, 47 x 47 x 1 7/8 inches (119.4 x 119.4 x 4.8 cm)
Untitled (Personal Minimalism), 1976–79. Wax paper bag, tracing paper, acrylic, 7 3/4 x 6 inches (19.7 x 15.2 cm)
Thomas Kovachevich (b. 1942, Detroit, MI) lives and works in New York City. He has had solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (1973); The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1991); Museum Baviera, Zurich (1996); and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA (2002), among others. Kovachevich participated in documenta 5 (1972), organized by Harald Szeemann, and the Eighth Biennale de Paris (1973). His work was featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois (1971, 1976, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1996); ExitArt, New York (1999); Guggenheim Public, Venice (2000); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2008); COCO Kunstverein, Vienna (2011); Musee d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, France (2011); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan (2017). His work is included in many notable collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Bern Kunst Museum, Switzerland.
Learn more about Thomas Kovachevich on the artist's website.
Kovachevich repurposes a sculpture as a stage upon which he will present a performance. The performers are drawings on paper that he calls Characters. With lighting, an installation emerges transforming the gallery into a theater, and Kovachevich into the impresario of his theater company. The paper Characters are animated by the power of evaporation, which is among nature’s most powerful yet subtle forces. Kovachevich has been creating these performances since the 1970s. In 1976, he patented the idea: “a method to effect a continuous movement of a fibrous material.” The performance will be followed by a Q&A with scholar Adela Kim. RSVP required, please contact lynn@callicoonfinearts.com.
The Animist Cookbook is a one-day exhibition at the Sunview Luncheonette, curated by Nitil Mukul. The Animist Cookbook is a day and evening of actions, gestures, interactions, interventions with the space (inside/out) and the things that reside there. It will be accompanied by an actual cookbook with recipes contributed by the artists corresponding to their works. The Luncheonette appears more as a site of everyday life rather than the antiseptic space typical of galleries and museums. The accumulated history embedded in its materiality will provide a point of departure. Tea will be served in the afternoon, and a light meal in the evening.
Monotypes with Friends is an exhibition of new monotypes printed at Entrance over the last four months featuring Lorenzo Bueno, Samuel Hindolo, Jim Joe, Thomas Kovachevich, Mary Manning, Nikholis Plank, Spencer Sweeney, and Jeannie Weissglass.
Thomas Kovachevich: Portrait of a Room is a site-specific exhibition curated by Chiara Bertola. It is Kovachevich's first solo exhibition in Italy.
Thomas Kovachevich: A Drawing Projected for a Total of 24 Hours is an exhibit that lasts for 24 hours over six days, on-view weekends only from noon until 4pm. At The National Exemplar Gallery, Kovachevich again investigates projected light and the passage of time. On this occasion, the focus is on one drawing taken from the artist’s digital notebook made over the last two years. The entire gallery is altered by reflected light, shadows, and images. The contrasts between analog and digital, perception of reality, image and impermanence is re-visited.
Portraits of Palermo is a site-specific exhibition at The National Exemplar.
Thomas Kovachevich is included in A Furnace in Marseille. At LE STANZE DEL VETRO in particular, the history of the Cirva will be presented through the works of 10 artists, who have contributed to forming an important part of its collection, succeeding through the instillment of creativity and experimental capacity. This is how Larry Bell, Pierre Charpin, Lieven De Boeck, Erik Dietman, Tom Kovachevich, Giuseppe Penone, Jana Sterbak, Martin Szekely, Robert Wilson and Terry Winters will find a space dedicated to their world: in each gallery of the exhibition, there will be an underlying detail on how the research and the exercise of each artist in the Marseille workshop have been fundamental to their work.
The exhibition will concentrate on a selection of 17 artists and designers, among those who have been in residence at the Cirva in the last thirty years, in an attempt to highlight the salient moments of creation. The artists selected by the two curators, Isabelle Reiher and Chiara Bertola, have only occasionally come into contact with the glass world throughout their careers. For this reason, the results shown in the exhibition are original and surprising, extraordinary yet unpredictable. The meeting between the two seemingly distant realities, in this case contemporary art and glass, allows us to imagine and build a third one: a world in which glass is no longer simply a symbol of tradition, but a depiction of a new landscape and visionary nature.
99 Cents or Less is a group exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann, including a diverse range of 99 artists making work from items purchased at America’s ubiquitous 99 Cent stores.
Thomas Kovachevich is included in Une maison de verre, an exhibition organized by CIRVA to celebrate it's thirty year anniversary.
