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Artists Robert Minervini and Adam Friedman have given this city a many-layeredsky/landscape, unique for its multiple twists on perspective. The installation opened onMay 10 to a huge crowd at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. For the show,curator Sven Davis asked the artists to create an installation to accompany his largecuratorial project called Space//Squared.

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The group show includes over 100 artists. Each participant was asked to interpret andvisualize space and form under the constraint of a 10! x 10” canvas board. Minerviniand Friedman’s site-specific installation is meant to augment the theme of theSpace//Squared by using elements of architecture and nature on a larger scale.

See the artists at work in this time-lapsed video, created by Adam Friedman.

The collaborative installation is set in a narrow space and spans three walls. Even onopening night last weekend when large crowds traveled through the installation,sometimes parking for long periods in the space, I felt refreshed by the spacious gridand its constant, well-measured pattern. It was sort of like looking at art in a brightwhite room verses a room with dark blue walls.

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Minervini and Friedman give us an indistinct landscape, highlighted towards the middleby a pink and purple glow. A shadowy, distant cityscape runs across the horizon, whilea diamond grid made of thick white lines that are bluish around the border, covers thelandscape. That grid creates the illusion of a layer, much like a glass plane. We mightbe looking out from the inside of a geodesic dome.

At the furthest wall, the artists capture a triangular window (up-side-down; the bottomangle is cut off by a mountain peak from the pink landscape) that reveals a starrynighttime sky neatly sliced from the middle of the pink and purple scene. To completethe installation, and to connect with the other parameters of Space//Squared, bothartists installed five 10 x 10” paintings within the space. The small pieces reflect someof the same colors and shapes from the installation. Friedman’s paintings appear likeWunderkammers windows (also known as Cabinets of Curiosities) concerned with neatincisions into landscape elements or the psychedelic layers of mineral rocks. Thesewindows might look out into a starry sky or a wavy seascape. Together, Friedman’simages feel like puzzles.

In Minervini’s set of paintings, the focus lies on sensitive layers created by both man-made and natural elements. I.E. a peach-colored sunset is depicted behind a rottingchain-linked fence; or in another piece, Minervini paints a mammoth highway bridgeseparated from the viewer because of another wiry fence in decay. The weedyvegetation climbing the fence, which also takes on the same color of the fence, creates

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a sense of combineddisintegration: Man and Naturerot away together, as a team.

In comparison to his cohort, Friedman’s work feels more celebratory. Minervini’simages reveal something more mournful. Both feel exploratory, and together,they present curious and mesmerizing twists on Sven Davis’ concepts. For a livelyshow, catch their installation and the dozens of other participating artists in

Space//Squared at WhiteWalls. The show runs until July5 . Simultaneously, WhiteWalls is showing 4 otherexhibits:

Alphabet Show: Ever LetterCounts • John Felix ArnoldIII – Pilgrimage • JorgeRodriguez-Gerada • HelenBayly – Give Me What I Can’tHave

Robert Minervini lives andworks in San Francisco. Currently, he is working on aresidency with the FacebookAnalog Research Laboratory,where he will construct a largemural. Adam Friedman’spractice is based in Portland,Oregon. He is working on alarge commission for theCapital One Collection. One ofFriedman’s paintings will befeatured on the GNU 2014-2015 Snowboard line. SvenDavis is an arts collector

based in the U.K. , where he manages an architectural practice. He writes for ArrestedMotion, an online publication on contemporary art. Photo credit goes to Brock Brake forhis smashing work.

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About the AuthorAudrey Tran

White Walls Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 PM to 7 PM. Look forthe gallery at 886 Geary Street, between Hyde and Larkin in San Francisco. Theircurrent shows opened on May 10th and will close on July 5th.

Written by Audrey Tran.

After graduating from New York Universityʼs Journalism and Studio Art programs, Audrey Tranmoved to the Bay Area where she writes and constructs artwork. Past web articles haveappeared on theFanzine.com, the Hyperallergic Blog, her own ArtfulGreenDot.wordpress.com,Uhuru Foods & Pies, and ArtsinBushwick.org. In recent years, she has exhibited work alongsideartists of DSNY, and the mail art exchange, Special Delivery. Currently, sheʼs writing about mail

art. For Artiholics, Audrey covers various art events around San Francisco.

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ashlisisk • 5 days ago

Grats Robert and Adam :D

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