Nohra Haime Gallery
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Leopoldo Maler
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Silence, an installation by Leopoldo Maler first exhibited at the Camden Art Center in London in 1971, will be shown at Nohra Haime Gallery. A seminal piece in Maler’s development as he moved from theater staging to art, utilizing forms that would become part of the new art vocabulary: installation, video, performance.
In a darkened room, the viewer encounters a single bed constructed of blue neon. On the bed lies an elderly woman which is projected onto the bed. A live nurse sits knitting in a bedside chair. Silence: a moment of reflection. It is a psychological process where Maler uses these images to unchain these processes. It evokes presences and absences. Maler is moved by the human body, horizontal and in repose. All anxiety of everyday life disappears and everything in our reality looses its value. The nurse’s appearance gives a physical dimension next to the filmed image which now become the reality. Silence is as fresh and haunting in the 21st Century as it was in 1971.
Born in Buenos Aires, Maler studied Social Sciences and Law. He moved to London in 1961 where he started to experiment with his new ideas about mixed media, integrating films into sculptures and installations. In 1977 Maler was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Arts and moved to New York until 1983 when he became the first Dean of the Parson’s School of Design in Santo Domingo. Maler’s work has been exhibited at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Whitechapel, and Hayward Galleries in London among others. He represented Argentina in the 14th Sao Paulo Biennial and in the 1986 Venice Biennale. His works are in important collections worldwide.
Also on view in the side gallery will be selections of Maler’s more recent paintings/assemblages. These works are personal dialogues with extreme depth and social consciousness.
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