Artists: Yves Scherer, Markus Selg, Anahid Mishek
Exhibition title: A Bigger Splash
Venue: Lyles & King, New York, US
Date: February 19 – March 19, 2017
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Lyles & King
Lyles and King is pleased to present A Bigger Splash, an exhibition by Yves Scherer with Markus Selg and Anahid Mishek. The exhibition features sculpture, video, and painting by the three artists combined in an immersive environment that takes you on a spiritual journey through waterfalls, a Christian pilgrim’s side, and a snake-infested wood into the ecstasy and lavishness of hot days in the south. It’s the combination of materials like wood and stone with tropes of water and bright colors that brings us an experience which touches on notions of the earthly, the sacred and divine while at the same time seduces us to indulge in the fruits of life. It’s a bigger splash and a celebration of the simple things: love, joy and warmth amid a most chilly period.
Markus Selg (b. 1974, Tuttlingen, DE) lives in Berlin. Selection of recent exhibitions / performances: Medea.Matrix (with Susanne Kennedy, Ruhrtriennale, 2016), Primitive Data (De Hallen / Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2015), Sublimation / Simulation (Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, 2014), La Vague d ́Esprit, (Vilma Gold, London, 2013), Spuren der Sonne – Eine apokalyptische Oper mit Werner Herzog und Jannis Kounellis, (b-o5, 2009). Selg is represented by Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, SVIT, Prague, and Vilma Gold, London.
Anahid Mishek (b. 1995, Los Angeles, US) lives in New York City. Recent group exhibitions include Rundgang, Universität der Künste Berlin Germany (2016), 6:45 pm, Brooklyn, NY (2016) and Wot For, 25E 13th Street Gallery, New York NY (2015). She will graduate with a BFA from Parsons this year.
Yves Scherer (b. 1987, Solothurn, CH) lives in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include: Our Life, Rod Bianco Gallery Oslo (2016); Single, Galerie Guido W. Baudach Berlin (2016) and Honey Moon, Swiss Institute New York (2015). He has shown in group-exhibitions internationally including the ICA London (2014), Kunsthaus Basel and (2015) and Futura Prague (2016). Scherer is represented by Galerie Guido W. Baudauch, Berlin and Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo.
Yves Scherer, Church, 2017, Wood, hemp, thread, bricks, candles, goldleaf, 122 x 100 x 100 inches
Yves Scherer, Our Lady of Guadalupe, 2017, Perspex, wood, LED lights, plaster, goldleaf, acrylic, paint, polystyrene, rug, 83 x 60 inches
Yves Scherer, Our Lady of Guadalupe, 2017, Perspex, wood, LED lights, plaster, goldleaf, acrylic, paint, polystyrene, rug, 83 x 60 inches
Yves Scherer, Aztec Eagle, 2017, Boxing dummy, fur, plaster, fabric, sweatpants, wood, paint, soil, metal, expanding foam, 52 x 29 x 26 inches
Yves Scherer, Emma (Virgen de Guadalupe), 2017, Acrylic paint, resin, photograph, dirt, varnish on perspex, 62.5 x 47.25 inches
