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Tony Tasset, The Weight : Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St., Chicago, IL

Past exhibition
28 February - 1 August 2020
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Tony Tasset Crow, 2020 Stained baltic birch plywood and painted steel (Would be re-made out of Steel for permanent Outdoor Display) 120 x 144 x 120 in 304.8 x 365.8 x 304.8 cm
Tony Tasset
Crow, 2020
Stained baltic birch plywood and painted steel
(Would be re-made out of Steel for permanent Outdoor Display)
120 x 144 x 120 in
304.8 x 365.8 x 304.8 cm

Kavi Gupta proudly presents The Weight, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by American artist Tony Tasset.

 

A Post-Atomic visual troubadour, Tasset continues to define the vanguard of Pop Conceptualism. From the monumental stoicism of the massive fiberglass Eye sculpture watching over downtown Dallas like a Neo-Surrealist sentinel, to a slumping, exhausted Paul Bunyan that pays sad tribute to manifest destiny gone awry, to the frailty and nuanced melancholy of a to-scale sculpture of a ripped Styrofoam cup, Tasset has demonstrated, time and again, a unique ability to memorialize the peculiar beauty and pathos of the American visual vernacular.

 

For The Weight, Tasset mined the innermost provinces of the contemporary human psyche, responding to the anxiety of our times with wit, gravitas, and salt-of-the-earth sagacity. Working in his western Michigan studio like an aesthetic Dr. Frankenstein assembling an assortment of Post-Modernist monsters—part Woody Guthrie, part Robert Crumb, part Jeff Koons, part Louise Bourgeois—Tasset has concocted a confident, unified sculptural statement he describes as “a reckoning, an apocalyptic mix-tape.”

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Works
  • Tony Tasset Angry Sun, 2018 Fiberglass, paint, and faux gold leaf 72 x 72 x 24 in 182.9 x 182.9 x 61 cm Edition of 3 plus one AP
    Tony Tasset
    Angry Sun, 2018
    Fiberglass, paint, and faux gold leaf
    72 x 72 x 24 in
    182.9 x 182.9 x 61 cm
    Edition of 3 plus one AP
  • Tony Tasset Crow, 2020 Stained baltic birch plywood and painted steel (Would be re-made out of Steel for permanent Outdoor Display) 120 x 144 x 120 in 304.8 x 365.8 x 304.8 cm
    Tony Tasset
    Crow, 2020
    Stained baltic birch plywood and painted steel
    (Would be re-made out of Steel for permanent Outdoor Display)
    120 x 144 x 120 in
    304.8 x 365.8 x 304.8 cm
  • Tony Tasset Eagle Head, 2020 Cast concrete (Outdoor/Indoor work) 60 x 60 x 48 in 152.4 x 152.4 x 121.9 cm
    Tony Tasset
    Eagle Head, 2020
    Cast concrete (Outdoor/Indoor work)
    60 x 60 x 48 in
    152.4 x 152.4 x 121.9 cm
  • Tony Tasset Ghosts, 2020 Two way glass, mirrored glass, LED lights, bisque ware, 22 karat gold glaze 60 x 30 x 30 in 152.4 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm
    Tony Tasset
    Ghosts, 2020
    Two way glass, mirrored glass, LED lights, bisque ware, 22 karat gold glaze
    60 x 30 x 30 in
    152.4 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm
  • Tony Tasset Snakes (A monument to the eternal battle between truth and fiction), 2020 Plush toy snakes, rubber toy snakes, taxidermied snakes, aluminum wire 24 x 36 x 36 in 60.9 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm
    Tony Tasset
    Snakes (A monument to the eternal battle between truth and fiction), 2020
    Plush toy snakes, rubber toy snakes, taxidermied snakes, aluminum wire
    24 x 36 x 36 in
    60.9 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm
Installation Views
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Video
Videos
  • Tony Tasset / Michelle Grabner : Artist Talk for The Weight at Kavi Gupta

    Tony Tasset / Michelle Grabner : Artist Talk for The Weight at Kavi Gupta

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  • Tony Tasset, The Weight

    Tony Tasset, The Weight

    Exhibition Video Read more
  • A Studio Visit with Tony Tasset

    A Studio Visit with Tony Tasset

    Interview Read more
Press
  • Tony Tasset, “The Weight,” solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, 2020.

    COVID REVIEWS: MARIA GASPAR, SUE HAVENS, TONY TASSET

    Lori Waxman, Quarantine Times, June 27, 2020
  • Installation view, Tony Tasset: The Weight at Kavi Gupta, Chicago (image courtesy Kavi Gupta)

    WHAT THIS ARTIST NEEDS TO MAKE WORK DURING A PANDEMIC

    John Yau, Hyperallergic, May 2, 2020
  • Tony Tasset, Angry Sun, 2018, fiberglass, paint, and gold leaf, 72 x 72 x 24 inches. Edition of 3 plus one AP

    Tony Tasset: The Weight

    Phillip Barcio, February 28, 2020

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