Artists: Darja Bajagić and Lionel Maunz
Exhibition title: Forest Passage
Venue: Tara Downs, New York, US
Date: October 27 – December 3, 2022
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Tara Downs, New York
“The proximity of destruction gives new pleasure to the pursuit of these delicate objects.”
-Ernst Jünger (November 26, 1943)
Darja Bajagić (b. 1990 in Podgorica, MNE) lives and works in Chicago and Bogišići, Montenegro. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2014. Selected solo exhibitions include: November Gallery, Belgrade, RS; Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR; New Galerie, Paris, FR; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, US; Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, IT; Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK; White Flag Library, Saint Louis, US; Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien (KM–), Graz, AU; University of the Arts, Philadelphia, US. Selected two person and group exhibitions have taken place at National Gallery Prague, CZ, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ; Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, ES; Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, LT; LUMA Westbau, Zürich, CH; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PO; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, MX; Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, AU; Forth Worth Drawing Center, US and Mana Contemporary, Chicago, US.
Lionel Maunz (b. 1976 Washington D.C., US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA in 2001, and his MA in 2004, from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions: MoMA PS1, Queens, US; Downs & Ross, New York, US; Bureau, New York, US; The Contemporary Austin, US; Art Basel, Basel, CH; Mountain View College, Dallas, US; Paradigm Gallery, Dallas, US. Selected group exhibitions: MoMA PS1, New York, US; Contemporary Artists Center, Troy, US; Brennan & Griffin, New York, US; Bureau, New York, US; SUNY Cortland, Cortland, US; Basilica Hudson, Hudson, US; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, US; Public Assembly, New York, US; Lyles & King, New York, US; Klemm’s, Berlin, DE; Bible, New York, US; Holiday Forever, Jackson Hole, US; Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest, RO; On Stellar Rays, New York, US; Loyal, Malmö, SE; Abel Nicosdriou Project, The Loft, Brussels, BE; Basilica Hudson, Hudson, US; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, US, and Public Assembly, New York, US.
Exhibition View: Forest Passage, 2022, Tara Downs, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle
Darja Bajagić, Baptism by Blood (Mother & Child), 2022, Acrylic, embalmer’s thread, and UV print on burlap; steel frame, 65 1/2 × 42 3/4 × 1 1/8 in / 166,4 × 108,6 × 2,9 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Darja Bajagić, Baptism by Blood (Mother & Child), 2022, Acrylic, embalmer’s thread, and UV print on burlap; steel frame, 65 1/2 × 42 3/4 × 1 1/8 in / 166,4 × 108,6 × 2,9 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Lionel Maunz, My Hands Make the Perfect Wound, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic paint, 55 × 36 × 60 in / 139,7 × 91,4 × 152,4 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, My Hands Make the Perfect Wound, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic paint, 55 × 36 × 60 in / 139,7 × 91,4 × 152,4 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, My Hands Make the Perfect Wound, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic paint, 55 × 36 × 60 in / 139,7 × 91,4 × 152,4 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Exhibition View: Forest Passage, 2022, Tara Downs, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle
Darja Bajagić, A Lion Among Sheep: Stein, Strick, Gras, Grün, 2022, Acrylic, embalmer’s thread, oil, and UV print on canvas; steel frame, 70 1/4 × 44 1/8 × 1 1/8 in / 178,4 × 112,1 × 2,9 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Darja Bajagić, A Lion Among Sheep: Stein, Strick, Gras, Grün, 2022, Acrylic, embalmer’s thread, oil, and UV print on canvas; steel frame, 70 1/4 × 44 1/8 × 1 1/8 in / 178,4 × 112,1 × 2,9 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Lionel Maunz, Ceremony of Degradation, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic paint, 30 × 40 × 32 in / 76,2 × 101,6 × 81,3 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, Ceremony of Degradation, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic paint, 30 × 40 × 32 in / 76,2 × 101,6 × 81,3 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, Ceremony of Degradation, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, steel, acrylic paint, 30 × 40 × 32 in / 76,2 × 101,6 × 81,3 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Exhibition View: Forest Passage, 2022, Tara Downs, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle
Darja Bajagić, Pyramidal Tau (Mater), 2021, Acrylic, embalmer’s thread, and UV print on canvas; steel frame, 49 × 30 × 2 in / 111,76 × 76,2 × 5,08 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Exhibition View: Forest Passage, 2022, Tara Downs, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle
Lionel Maunz, History of the Desert, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, epoxy resin, steel, acrylic paint, 64 1/2 × 15 × 18 in / 163,8 × 38,1 × 45,7 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, History of the Desert, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, epoxy resin, steel, acrylic paint, 64 1/2 × 15 × 18 in / 163,8 × 38,1 × 45,7 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, History of the Desert, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy clay, epoxy resin, steel, acrylic paint, 64 1/2 × 15 × 18 in / 163,8 × 38,1 × 45,7 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Darja Bajagić, Untitled, 2021, Acrylic, burlap, embalmer’s thread, and UV print on canvas; steel frame 49 × 43 × 2 in / 124,46 × 109,22 × 5,08 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Darja Bajagić, Untitled, 2021, Acrylic, burlap, embalmer’s thread, and UV print on canvas; steel frame 49 × 43 × 2 in / 124,46 × 109,22 × 5,08 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York
Exhibition View: Forest Passage, 2022, Tara Downs, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle
Lionel Maunz, Flood, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy, clay, wood, glass, steel, acrylic paint 50 × 24 × 65 in / 127 × 61 × 165,1 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, Flood, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy, clay, wood, glass, steel, acrylic paint 50 × 24 × 65 in / 127 × 61 × 165,1 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Lionel Maunz, Flood, 2022, Modified gypsum, polyurethane resin, epoxy, clay, wood, glass, steel, acrylic paint 50 × 24 × 65 in / 127 × 61 × 165,1 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York
Exhibition View: Forest Passage, 2022, Tara Downs, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and Tara Downs, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle