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“Stencil sketched the entire history of V. that night and strengthened a long suspicion. That it did add up only to the recurrence of an initial and a few dead objects.”
—Thomas Pynchon, V., 1963
Like a modernist writer shifting among epistolary, theatrical, and taxonomical registers in a single narrative, Ian Miyamura pursues multiple styles across Novel, his first solo exhibition at Bel Ami. Here we find geometric paintings that feign symmetry, abstract compositions that dramatize the meeting of two arcs, text pictures that make puns, sunken relief sculptures describing receding chevrons, and veristic tableaux populated by macabre miniatures from the British tabletop fantasy game, Warhammer (1983 – present). Is a plot concealed among these vespertine scenes and ordered characters? One senses a pattern, a point of unity where traces converge from seemingly opposed positions. If it could only be mapped out, would we at last reveal the force that turns the eras, furnishes one person with…
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“Stencil sketched the entire history of V. that night and strengthened a long suspicion. That it did add up only to the recurrence of an initial and a few dead objects.”
—Thomas Pynchon, V., 1963
Like a modernist writer shifting among epistolary, theatrical, and taxonomical registers in a single narrative, Ian Miyamura pursues multiple styles across Novel, his first solo exhibition at Bel Ami. Here we find geometric paintings that feign symmetry, abstract compositions that dramatize the meeting of two arcs, text pictures that make puns, sunken relief sculptures describing receding chevrons, and veristic tableaux populated by macabre miniatures from the British tabletop fantasy game, Warhammer (1983 – present). Is a plot concealed among these vespertine scenes and ordered characters? One senses a pattern, a point of unity where traces converge from seemingly opposed positions. If it could only be mapped out, would we at last reveal the force that turns the eras, furnishes one person with…
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