David Altmejd’s newest exhibition, The Serpent, now on view at White Dice New York by April 19, extends his ongoing exploration of nature’s fluid hierarchies. Anchored by a monumental serpent sculpture composed of interlinked human heads, the present delves into the interaction of order and chaos, creation and transformation.
On the gallery’s entrance, “The Serpent” rises to fulfill its conjurer, “Snake Charmer,” in a tense dialogue between maker and made. The work mutates alongside its size, its heads shrinking and morphing into rabbits—symbols of trickster vitality in Jungian psychology as per the gallery. This shapeshifting impulse carries into the higher gallery, the place swans and nymphic figures have interaction in an ecstatic, musical ritual. Sculptures like “The Prometheus Chord” and “The Lydian Chord” reimagine swans as musical devices wielded by enigmatic, rock-star-like figures, whereas three life-size bronze Nymphs seem suspended mid-movement.
Altmejd’s world thrives on paradox: uncooked sculptural surfaces disrupt polished kinds, heads bearing musical notes appear to emit sound and mythological references merge with unconscious imagery. Head to White Dice’s web site for extra info.
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