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[glow=red,2,300]EASTERN DISTRICT GALLERY and AD HOC ART present

TAPE & MIRRORS by Aakash Nihalani[/glow]

Eastern District Gallery in collaboration with Ad Hoc Art is pleased to announce their newly featured show: Tape and Mirrors by artist Aakash Nihalani. Tape and Mirrors, the artist's third solo exhibition in New York, will open on Friday September 25th, 2009, from 7-10 pm and will be on view Thursday through Sunday from 2pm-8pm until October 25th, 2009.

Eastern District is a contemporary exhibition space located at 43 Bogart Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They pride themselves on the merging of all creative artistic practices and presenting the community with art exhibitions as well as ongoing performance and event-based programming. Eastern District is excited to be presenting Tape and Mirrors with Ad Hoc Art. Ad Hoc, formerly located at 49 Bogart Street, is a staple in the Bushwick art community that has dedicated itself for years to being more than a gallery but a passionate creative fulcrum, showing work that is often marginalized by the larger New York art scene. This collaboration will undoubtedly be the first of many to come and will hopefully continue to build the local art community to another level.

Aakash Nihalani’s street work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. Using brightly colored tape, he selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry pre-existing in the city itself. All execution of his street level tape work is done on site, with little to no planning.

For however brief of a time, Aakash Nihalani's work offers people a chance to see a different side of New York, and momentarily escape from routine schedules and lives. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape”. He tries to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely and unexpectedly ‘disconnect’ from their reality.

Playing off of the metaphor 'smoke and mirrors,' meaning an illusion created out of an elaborate distraction, Nihalani's Tape and Mirrors exhibition aims to create a magical experience out of the mundane. By implementing mirrors in key positions throughout the space, the viewer is given an opportunity to step 'into,' and view themselves within, Nihalani's signature tape installations. Creating a playful interruption to the regular gallery schematic, the viewer is prodded from a bystander into a participant, not only interacting with the space and materials around them, but also with their own reflections.

Let Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors open up a new portal of reality and experience yourself between dimensions at Eastern District gallery in Brooklyn.

Original prints and paintings by the artist will also be on view and for sale through the gallery.

To find out more information about Aakash Nihalani’s Tape and Mirrors exhibition, and more about Ad Hoc and Eastern District’s collaboration please go to adhocart.org and eastern-district.com.

For more information on Aakash Nihalani and his art visit aakashnihalani.com.

Thank you! We hope to see you out here at Eastern District Gallery, 43 Bogart Street, on September 25th from 7-10pm.

mwaoh.. not convinced..

Love that. Simple theory but well executed. Just a bag of tapes to carry.

very cool stuff

I was waiting for this to drop and when it did, I just couldn't pull the trigger. Not sure why, may be something to do with the planned releases this week and next.

Nihalani street work, and even some of his gallery stuff, is nice giving conflicting depth of vision based on placement. Just not sure this print, or indeed any kind of print, could reflect this.

It is with great pleasure that I am able to share with you a new body of work from Brooklyn, New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani, which we will be premiering this week at the VOLTA NY Art Fair.

From his street work to his gallery fine art pieces, Aakash continues to mature into one of the most exciting and original artists of his generation. After his recent installation at Facebook’s NY offices, you can look for him as the current featured artist in a national Lacoste ad campaign and a solo project at Art Hong Kong 2012.

If you have not RSVPed for the fair and would like to attend, please let me know and I will add you to the guest list. The fair runs Thursday through Sunday and we will be in Booth C1 - you won’t be able to miss us. For more information, visit:

www.carmichaelgallery.com/shows/march82012.html

Best,

Seth.

Really like this guy's work especially the powder coated steel.

Especially the one from 1xRUN - Two color 18 x 24" screen print on 140lb paper.

Anything else or any link, just let me know. Thanks

Aakash Nihalani was awarded a residency at the Willem de Kooning Studio in East Hampton by Lisa de Kooning, here are some of the installations he created on the property:









(via Jonathan Levine Instagram)

lots of photos of Aakash Nihalani's site-specific installations on the grounds of the de Kooning estate was just published @ Jonathan Levine blog

His work is amazing! Asolutey. But he is a dick to deal with and th galleries represnting him have a difficult time pricing his work. Its all over the place without any idea. I was i. The market for his work but I decided to eait for another year or so when prices settled and galleries figured out what to do.

I am really digging Nihalani's work so I contacted him to find out if he still had the print he did with 1xRUN at 60 USD. Told me yes, still available but at 300 USD !!

Then I got a reply from 1xRUN saying they still have some in stock; I told them to keep one for me and one week later they sold it in an archive sale.

To sum up, I was let down twice and I am still searching for an Aakash, 1xRUN edition at cost or slightly above cost - urbanartassociation.com/index.cgi?board=artwanted&action=print&thread=95191

looks a bit boring to me, not much talent shown

edition of 100, cost was $60.-