Artist: Elias Hansen
Venue: COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada
Date: March 18 – May 6, 2017
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and COOPER COLE, Toronto
COOPER COLE is pleased to present This road leads home, a solo exhibition from Elias Hansen.
This marks Hansen’s first solo exhibition in Canada.
Elias Hansen (b. 1979, Washington, USA) studied printmaking under Master Printer Keiko Hara at Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA. His installations, comprised of an assortment of pipettes, flasks and beakers alongside rough-cut wood, rubber tubing and light bulbs, are interrelated in arrangements that reference the fragility of both the precious and the discarded, the authentic and the reproduced. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Maccarone in New York, USA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA; The American Academy in Rome, Rome, IT; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway; COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada. He has also participated to the Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan. His works can be found in the Saatchi Collection in London, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, IT, in the Coleccíon Jumex in Mexico City, in the Boise Art Museum in Boise, USA, and in the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, USA. Hansen currently lives and works in upstate New York, USA.
Elias Hansen, There ain’t no other place to go, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, glass wood, steel, cork, razor and nails, 40″ X 60″ X 15″, 101.6cm X 152.4cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, There ain’t no other place to go, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, glass wood, steel, cork, razor and nails, 40″ X 60″ X 15″, 101.6cm X 152.4cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, There ain’t no other place to go, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, glass wood, steel, cork, razor and nails, 40″ X 60″ X 15″, 101.6cm X 152.4cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, It ain’t what it seem, 2012-2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, glass, steel, vinyl, wire, zip lies, 80″ X 88″ X 56″, 203.2cm X 223.52cm X 142.24cm
Elias Hansen, This Road Leads Home, 2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, metal, wire, 84″ X 72″ X 72″, 213.36cm X 182.88cm X 182.88cm
Elias Hansen, This Road Leads Home, 2017, CFL light bulbs, found objects, metal, wire, 84″ X 72″ X 72″, 213.36cm X 182.88cm X 182.88cm
Elias Hansen, If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know, 2014-2017, Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs, 56″ X 58″ X 8″, 142.24cm X 147.32cm X 20.32cm
Elias Hansen, If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know, 2014-2017, Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs, 56″ X 58″ X 8″, 142.24cm X 147.32cm X 20.32cm
Elias Hansen, If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know, 2014-2017, Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs, 56″ X 58″ X 8″, 142.24cm X 147.32cm X 20.32cm
Elias Hansen, If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know, 2014-2017, Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs, 56″ X 58″ X 8″, 142.24cm X 147.32cm X 20.32cm
Elias Hansen, If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know, 2014-2017, Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs, 56″ X 58″ X 8″, 142.24cm X 147.32cm X 20.32cm
Elias Hansen, If you have to ask, you ain’t need to know, 2014-2017, Wood, glass, CFL light bulbs, 56″ X 58″ X 8″, 142.24cm X 147.32cm X 20.32cm
Elias Hansen, Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea, 2016, Found objects, glass, light bulbs, wire, 67″ X 53″ X 15″, 170.18cm X 134.62cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea, 2016, Found objects, glass, light bulbs, wire, 67″ X 53″ X 15″, 170.18cm X 134.62cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea, 2016, Found objects, glass, light bulbs, wire, 67″ X 53″ X 15″, 170.18cm X 134.62cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea, 2016, Found objects, glass, light bulbs, wire, 67″ X 53″ X 15″, 170.18cm X 134.62cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, Sitting close to the ground, looking for the sea, 2016, Found objects, glass, light bulbs, wire, 67″ X 53″ X 15″, 170.18cm X 134.62cm X 38.1cm
Elias Hansen, After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, LED light, glass, wood, enamel paint, wire, post card, playing cards, photograph and drawing on paper, Edition of 3, 2 AP, 87″ X 69″ X 9.5″, 220.98cm X 175.26cm X 24.13cm
Elias Hansen, After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, LED light, glass, wood, enamel paint, wire, post card, playing cards, photograph and drawing on paper, Edition of 3, 2 AP, 87″ X 69″ X 9.5″, 220.98cm X 175.26cm X 24.13cm
Elias Hansen, After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, LED light, glass, wood, enamel paint, wire, post card, playing cards, photograph and drawing on paper, Edition of 3, 2 AP, 87″ X 69″ X 9.5″, 220.98cm X 175.26cm X 24.13cm
Elias Hansen, After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, LED light, glass, wood, enamel paint, wire, post card, playing cards, photograph and drawing on paper, Edition of 3, 2 AP, 87″ X 69″ X 9.5″, 220.98cm X 175.26cm X 24.13cm
Elias Hansen, After all that, nothing really seems to sit right anymore, 2014-2017, CFL light bulbs, LED light, glass, wood, enamel paint, wire, post card, playing cards, photograph and drawing on paper, Edition of 3, 2 AP, 87″ X 69″ X 9.5″, 220.98cm X 175.26cm X 24.13cm