THE ALEPH
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Felines 2006
Zeta 2004
Infinite Collapse 2005
Exhibition view:
The Aleph at Sandroni Rey Gallery, LA (May 27 - June 24, 2006)
Peter Coffin, John Espinosa, Daniel Hesidence, Randy Moore and Carter Mull
Exhibition text by Nu Nguyen:
“In that unbounded moment, I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts; none amazed me so much as the fact that all occupied the same point, without superposition and without transparency… I felt dizzy, and I wept because my eyes had seen that secret, hypothetical object whose name has been usurped by men but which no man has ever truly looked upon: the inconceivable universe.”
- Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph,” 1945
The Aleph borrows its name from Jorge Luis Borges’s fictional account of his confrontation with the so-called aleph, a mysterious object that is curiously able to encompass and exceed all human perceptions and observations. The reader of Borges’s tale comes to understand the aleph as an experience of infinite time and space contained in a singular present moment. The aleph’s effect on its viewer is immense and, in Borges’s own words, ultimately “ineffable.” The works of Peter Coffin, John Espinosa, Daniel Hesidence, Randy Moore and Carter Mull are all bound by a common interest in such mythic, transcendent encounters - ones whose depictions lie just beyond the normal reach of language and representation. Through painting, photography, sculpture and video, these five artists navigate in and around the many corridors of the vast, unceasing universe, giving shape to various immeasurable, abstract ideas and consequently coming to terms with the finite limits of their own tangible, earthly experiences.
Felines 2006
Zeta 2004
Infinite Collapse 2005
Exhibition view:
The Aleph at Sandroni Rey Gallery, LA (May 27 - June 24, 2006)
Peter Coffin, John Espinosa, Daniel Hesidence, Randy Moore and Carter Mull
Exhibition text by Nu Nguyen:
“In that unbounded moment, I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts; none amazed me so much as the fact that all occupied the same point, without superposition and without transparency… I felt dizzy, and I wept because my eyes had seen that secret, hypothetical object whose name has been usurped by men but which no man has ever truly looked upon: the inconceivable universe.”
- Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph,” 1945
The Aleph borrows its name from Jorge Luis Borges’s fictional account of his confrontation with the so-called aleph, a mysterious object that is curiously able to encompass and exceed all human perceptions and observations. The reader of Borges’s tale comes to understand the aleph as an experience of infinite time and space contained in a singular present moment. The aleph’s effect on its viewer is immense and, in Borges’s own words, ultimately “ineffable.” The works of Peter Coffin, John Espinosa, Daniel Hesidence, Randy Moore and Carter Mull are all bound by a common interest in such mythic, transcendent encounters - ones whose depictions lie just beyond the normal reach of language and representation. Through painting, photography, sculpture and video, these five artists navigate in and around the many corridors of the vast, unceasing universe, giving shape to various immeasurable, abstract ideas and consequently coming to terms with the finite limits of their own tangible, earthly experiences.
