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Nohra Haime Artists (18)
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PAST EXHIBITIONLeopoldo Maler: Silence
May 28, 2008—July 3, 2008 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 evoques 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.
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