The Haas Brothers: Inner Visions
2 May - 8 June 2024
Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24 Street
Marianne Boesky is pleased to present Inner Visions, an exhibition of all-new work by the Haas Brothers (b. 1984, Austin; based in Los Angeles), which will feature the debut of the twins' first-ever paintings alongside new bronze sculptures. The exhibition coincides with a major museum solo at the Nasher Museum and Sculpture Center in the brothers' home state of Texas.
Throughout their practice, the Haas Brothers—twins Nikolai and Simon—investigate the divide between art and design with humor, whimsy, and inventive originality. While they are best known for their riotously colorful biomorphic forms, genitalia-adorned furniture, and pun-infused titles, an intellectual, conceptual, and technical rigor grounds their practice. Marrying their respective personalities and strengths—Simon’s penchant for analysis and systemization and Niki’s playfulness, humor, and creativity— the duo finds new ways to balance substance with irreverence in each new body of work.
Inner Visions furthers Nikolai and Simon's Accretion technique that they began developing over a decade ago. Inspired by the layered accumulation process found throughout the natural world—in coral, in tree fungus, in cave formations—the artists' earliest Accretion works consisted of wet clay brushed atop dry clay to achieve gradually mottled surfaces. The new Accretion Paintings find the artists operating within a predetermined set of rules that they repeat using squeeze bottles of acrylic paint, building up the surfaces over time to create richly textured three dimensionality. Similarly, the new bronze works advance their initial technique through a revised material process involving wax. Read more in the press release linked here.
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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download web-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of the exhibition, with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”
