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January 21, 2006
Milan Klic — January 19th - February 18th
Reeves Contemporary opened an exhibition of new sculptures by Milan Klic last Thursday, January 19th. The show continues through February 18th.

Klic’s whimsical freestanding sculptures, ‘vehicles’, intertwine bamboo, thread and wood. These delicate creations teeter in awkward balance on their wheel-like bases. The spindly lines of the bamboo structures are threaded, producing a web of lyrical drawings in space. The frailty of these looming, seven and eight-foot sculptures hover over the spectator poised for movement; silent and contemplative bearing witness to a world obsessed with relentless mobility. Jonathan Goodman has remarked in Art in America, “Klic has a light hand and a sense of humor that connect his work to the Dada tradition. With their big wheels and winglike canopies, his vehicles look like exquisite flying machines”.

Echoing the large, freestanding sculptures are wall- mounted pieces which combine wood, stainless steel, cotton and bamboo. Pairing these diverse materials yields all at once an exchange of fragility and strength. The sculptures are a way of commenting on the indelible traces we impose on our natural—and social—environment. The density of the materials suggests the irreversibility of our actions; and the extreme delicacy of the materials suggests that our actions are ultimately insubstantial. Milan Klic emigrated from the Czech Republic and continued his studies at Brandies University in Boston. He settled in the northeast, and has shown his work at the Newport Art Museum, Fuller Museum of Art, the International Institute of Boston, and the DeCordova Museum. His work, which has been shown in the United States, and abroad, and is in numerous private and corporate collections. Klic was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2001.

Please contact the gallery for more information. 535 West 24th Street 2nd Floor New York City 212 714 0044 http://www.reevescontemporary.com/ info@reevescontemporary.com

January 23, 2004 Reeves Contemporary:
Milan Klic Creates Vehicles from Bamboo and Air
Reeves Contemporary opens an exhibition of work by Milan Klic with an artist’s reception from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 18th . The exhibition features bamboo ‘vehicles’ and mixed media wall pieces of metal and thread. The exhibition runs through April 20th. The gallery is located at 535 West 24th Street and is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 to 5:30 p.m.

In Klic’s three-dimensional structures, threaded canopies hover tentatively over thin, bamboo wheels. Primitive and frail in their execution and composed of organic materials, the sculptures refer back to the origins of travel. The fragility of these seven and eight foot creations is stunning, and the lightness of the bamboo makes them appear to materialize out of thin air. In composition they seem to many viewers like spatial drawings reduced to bare essentials, confounding in their non-functionality. The vehicles are poised for movement, as if time and motion were suspended from within them. They bear silent, contemplative witness to a world obsessed with relentless mobility.

The wall-mounted work combines granite and wood with stainless steel. The sculptures are a way of commenting on the indelible traces we impose on our natural – and social – environment: the density of the materials suggests the irreversibility of our actions; the extreme delicacy of these sculptures suggests that our actions are ultimately insubstantial.

Milan Klic emigrated from the Czech Republic and continued his studies at Brandeis University in Boston. He settled in the northeast, and has shown his work at Harvard, The Boston Immigration Museum, the Newport Art Museum, Fuller Museum of Art, the International Institute of Boston, and the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. His work, which has been shown in the United States, Czech Republic and elsewhere, is in numerous private and corporate collections. Klic is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant, 2001.

Reeves Contemporary will show the photography and collodion prints of Renaissance Press, along with rare photogravures of images by Aaron Siskind. That exhibition opens on April 22nd.