David Zwirner and Maccarone Collaborate on Carol Bove Representation

David Zwirner has announced the representation of the artist Carol Bove. The gallery will be co-representing the artist in partnership with Maccarone in an innovative model in which the two New York galleries will collaborate to help the artist realize future projects and exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.

New York-based Bove is known for her simple yet intricate assemblages of found and made objects. Carefully arranged on pedestals, elevated platforms, or directly against walls and ceilings, these yield unexpected, poetic, and multi-layered meanings, which seem to derive from the composition of the objects rather than the inherent substance of the individual components.

Using a wide range of materials, including books, driftwood, peacock feathers, metal, concrete, foam, and loans from other artists, Bove's works are subtle assemblages resisting categorization despite their determined relationships with Modernist display methods.

Since she started exhibiting in the late 1990s, Bove's work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Bove's installation The Foamy Saliva of a Horse (2011) is currently on view at the Arsenale as part of the 54th Venice Biennale. In this subtly lit assemblage of stand-alone works, viewers are faced with an instability of meaning and perception. Enhanced by the unusual display strategy of placing the sculptural elements on an eye-level platform, industrial leftovers are combined with ornate shells and tall lamps suggesting a Surrealist landscape in monumental form.

In 2008, Bove participated in the Whitney Biennial with the work The Night Sky over New York, October 21, 2007, 9 p.m. (2007), which presented 475 bronze rods suspended from the ceiling in a constellation mirroring the cosmic sky at that given moment. Her critically acclaimed exhibition The Middle Pillar at Maccarone in 2007 consisted of an assortment of found objects and sculptural elements arranged across the gallery space as a large tableaux, which included paperbacks and photographs placed together on bookshelves, an assemblage by the artist Bruce Conner, and a group of paintings by Wilfred Lang, a largely unknown Bay Area artist her grandmother had collected. This thoughtful presentation invoking personal memories conveyed a familial narration of history, favoring instinct over conventionality.

As David Zwirner remarks, "I have been following and admiring Carol's work for many years now and I consider Maccarone one of the most interesting galleries operating today. The art world is typically seen as a highly competitive place, yet it can also be extraordinarily collegial. As Carol's work continues to grow, I am looking forward together with Michele to help her realize her projects."

Michele Maccarone says, "I am so honored to be involved since 2005 with an artist like Carol Bove, who has continuously proven to contribute to the history of art. I look forward to this new chapter, hand-in-hand with David Zwirner, who has been a supporter and friend of our program since day one."

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