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tiny airplane flying towards a bathroom

HIRAKI SAWA Spotter, 2003 Digital video 8 minute 20 second loop

an image of Hiraki Sawa's work vs. Alan Saret's work
view of a window where two figures are spotted looking at a plane

HIRAKI SAWA Spotter, 2003 Digital video 8 minute 20 second loop

tint airplane flying through a room

HIRAKI SAWA Spotter, 2003 Digital video 8 minute 20 second loop

, ALAN SARET Green Wave of Air, 1968-69 Chicken wire mesh 53 x 60 x 48 inches

ALAN SARET Green Wave of Air, 1968-69 Chicken wire mesh 53 x 60 x 48 inches

tangled up copper and lacquered wire

 

ALAN SARET Autumn Cumulus, 1980 Copper and lacquered wire 48 x 40 x 36 inches

 

copper wire resembling hair hanging from the ceiling

 

ALAN SARET Three-Tiered Copper, 1982 Copper wire 225 x 48 x 48 inches

 

bundles of different types of wire grouped together

 

ALAN SARET Paracongregata, 1981 Nickel and galvanized wire 33 x 72 x 50 inches

 

tiny tea cup with legs walking next to a book cart

HIRAKI SAWA Elsewhere, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 40 second loop

toilet paper roll with legs walking on top of a toilet

HIRAKI SAWA Elsewhere, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 40 second loop

tea cup and glasses with legs walking on counter top

HIRAKI SAWA Elsewhere, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 40 second loop

bar of soap and shampoo bottle with legs walking around a shower

HIRAKI SAWA Elsewhere, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 40 second loop

tangled and knotted copper and coated wire

 

ALAN SARET Untitled, 1970 Steel, copper and coated wire 25 x 22 x 17 inches

 

knotted and tangled nickel wire

 

ALAN SARET Aura Arc, 1982 Nickel wire 34 x 38 x 36 inches

 

crumpled up steel and copper wire hanging from the wall

 

ALAN SARET Untitled, 1986 Steel and copper wire 49 x 48 x 26 inches

 

concentrated squiggles on paper

 

ALAN SARET Blue Crux Vale from Ensoulment, 1970 Color pencil on paper

 

tiny camel and tiny man under a faucet

HIRAKI SAWA Migration, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 10 second loop

tiny animals and people walking all over a room

HIRAKI SAWA Migration, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 10 second loop HIRAKI SAWA Migration, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 10 second loop

tiny animals and people walking all over the window rims

HIRAKI SAWA Migration, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 10 second loop

tiny animals and people walking on a kitchen countertop

HIRAKI SAWA Migration, 2003 Digital video on DVD 7 minute 10 second loop

colorful, concentrated squiggles

 

ALAN SARET Planetary Vertical Ensoulment, 1970 Color pencil on paper 24 x 38 inches

 

colorful, concentrated squiggles

 

ALAN SARET Dessert Peace, 1970 Color pencil on paper 24 x 38 inches

 

colorful, concentrated squiggles

 

ALAN SARET Prism Pines, 1970 Color pencil on paper 24 x 38 inches

 

Press Release

Hiraki Sawa

James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of Hiraki Sawa. He will present four new videos: Migration, Elsewhere, Spotter, and Airliner. Each video is a poetic mediation on the idea of dislocation and displacement. The juxtapositions, which he creates with simple video editing techniques, recall earlier Surrealist's collages. However, Sawa's focus is on an ever-shifting terrain of our own existence in the modern age. The ease of world travel allows one to move from culture to culture seamlessly. The airplane and re-animations of Eadweard Muybridge's locomotion studies become Sawa's metaphors for change, evolution, and alienation.

Dwelling, an earlier video by Hiraki Sawa, is exhibitionsly on view in Times Square, presented by Creative Time's The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision. This work can be viewed at One Times Square on the large monitor every fifty-ninth minute of every third hour.

Sawa, who is from Kanazawa, Japan, has lived in London for the last eight years. He recently graduated from the master's program at the Slade School of Art, University College in London. His work was included in the 2003 Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France.

Alan Saret

The James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Alan Saret.

Alan Saret's sculptures are malleable, shrub-like bundles of wire that sit on the floor, hang from the wall, or most notably, are suspended from the ceiling. The works featured in this exhibition span from 1967 to the late 1980s. His sculptures and drawings are process-based, referring to their own making, and address the critical idea of creating volume rather than mass. The combined airiness and complexity of the work reveals its mode of creation and seems deceptively open to view, but on closer inspection present an intensity and attention to rigorous detail. Because the sculptures are not rigid they have an ability to gently change in form over time. The acceptance of the mutable quality of the material was embraced by several artists of Saret's generation, including Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse and Richard Serra, in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a way to draw connections between nature and art. Saret's sculptures in effect reinvigorate the notion of drawing in space. His drawings, while not preliminary studies for his three-dimensional work, are created in tandem and further express a strong atmospheric, transient and lyrical quality.

Saret was born in New York City on 25 December 1944. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Cornell University (1966) and subsequently studied with Robert H Morris at Hunter College (1966-68). As Saret's sculpture began to increase in scale and complexity, he began exhibiting outside the commercial gallery network. Major exhibitions of which have included or featured his work are The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Alan Saret: Matter into Aether and the Newport Harbor Museum among others. His work is included in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Detroit Institute of Arts; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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