GEDI SIBONY
ANOTHER WORD FOR LIFE

07.06.2023 — 06.07.2023
Milan
GEDI SIBONY, MANTLE, 2023, vinyl, 50.51h × 35w × 4.02d in. (128.30h × 88.90w × 10.20d cm)
(left) GEDI SIBONY, MANTLE, 2023, vinyl, 50.51h × 35w × 4.02d in. (128.30h × 88.90w × 10.20d cm); (right) GEDI SIBONY, STILL LIFE WITH EQUAL FOOTING, 2022, oil and latex on canvas, 18h × 24.41w × 0.79d in. (45.72h × 62w × 2d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, THE SOLID THOUGHT IDEA, 2019-23, aluminum sheeting and aluminum screws, latex paint residue, 87.40h × 30.51w × 9.25d in. (222h × 77.50w × 23.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, THE SOLID THOUGHT IDEA, 2019-23, aluminum sheeting and aluminum screws, latex paint residue, 87.40h × 30.51w × 9.25d in. (222h × 77.50w × 23.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, HALF APSED, 2022, wood cupboard, 28.46h × 28.74w × 9.45d in. (72.30h × 73w × 24d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, HALF APSED, 2022, wood cupboard, 28.46h × 28.74w × 9.45d in. (72.30h × 73w × 24d cm)
(left) GEDI SIBONY, BANDOGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm); (right) GEDI SIBONY, PANAGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, OCTAGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, BANDOGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, BANDOGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, PANAGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, OCTAGRAM, 2021, foamcore, latex paint, spray paint and artist frame, 36.22h × 36.22w × 1.38d in. (92h × 92w × 3.50d cm)
GEDI SINONY, OIL PAINTING 2, 2022 oil and latex on found oil painting 18h × 24.41w × 0.79d in 45.72h × 62w × 2d cm
GEDI SINONY, OIL PAINTING 1, 2022 oil and latex on found oil painting 17.99h × 24.41w × 0.79d in
GEDI SIBONY, STILL LIFE WITH EQUAL FOOTING, 2022 oil and latex on canvas 18h × 24.41w × 0.79d in 45.72h × 62w × 2d cm
GEDI SIBONY, UPSTAIRS MONACLE, 2023, pencil, paper in artist frame, 16.30h × 12.28w × 0.79d in. (41.40h × 31.20w × 2d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, UPSTAIRS, 2023, pencil, paper in artist frame, 15.43h × 13.23w × 0.79d in. (39.20h × 33.60w × 2d cm)
GECI SIBONY, TERRACE THEATER CURVES, 2023, pencil, paper in artist frame, 14.50h × 11.50w × 0.79d in. (36.83h × 29.21w × 2d cm)
GEDI SIBONY, TERRACE THEATER BLUR, 2023, pencil, paper in artist frame, 12.01h × 9.33w × 0.79d in. (30.50h × 23.70w × 2d cm)

Exhibition Text

GEDI SIBONYANOTHER WORD FOR LIFE

07.06.2023 — 06.07.2023MILAN

Carl Kostyál is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by American conceptual artist Gedi Sibony at the Kostyál home in Milan.

Conceived specifically in response to the architectural context and history of the piano nobile of the 19th century palazzo which was re-modelled with sculptural imagination in the early 1960s by the famed Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Sibony’s constructions and found and object relationships draw subtle and poetic connections with the essence of the place. The ghost of Giorgio Morandi is ever present in the deliberate washy transformation of paint into compositions of groups of non-specific shapes that occupy the picture plane, or which are cut out of it entirely. Stacked frames, shapes and shelves nod to Minimalism in their pared-down aesthetic and in his conception of sculpture as a series of self-contained conceptual objects which delineate empty space as a comparable field by which to measure the sculpture’s existence, but his use of deliberately  impoverished materials, more usually associated with debris and construction, owes more to the experimental approach of Arte Povera and those artists’ notion of the mystical nature of natural materials.

Gedi Sibony lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2023, 2020, 2018), and Mister Fahrenheit, New York (2022); solo institutional presentations include The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (2014); Culturgest, Lisbon (2011); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2009); and In the Still Epiphany, a curatorial project at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis (2012).

Sibony’s work is in the collections of the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Saint Louis Art Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.