Leandro Erlich: Construction of Reality @ HOW Art Museum / Shanghai, China

2018/05/30

We are pleased to announce Leandro Erlich's solo exhibition in Shanghai, China.

■Leandro Erlich: Construction of Reality
Duration：June 1, 2018 – October 15, 2018
Venue: HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), No 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Rd., Pudong New District, Shanghai
Organized by HOW Art Museum
Supported by Galleria Continua, Art Front Gallery

This show brings together over thirty artworks by Erlich, covering his large-scale interactive installations, video installations, and photography, including thirteen monumental interactive installations that offer the audience uncanny experiences via optical illusions. By transforming the architectural spaces through jarring reflections and fascinating labyrinths that disrupt the viewers’ sense of balance and orientation, the artist invites us to question our normal perception of everyday experience. Leandro Erlich: Construction of Reality will be on view from June 1, 2018 through October 15, 2018.

Titled Construction of Reality (in Chinese “虚(xū).构(gòu)” – a combination of 虚(xū), meaning illusion, and 构(gòu), meaning construction) this exhibition unfolds the complex duality that characterizes Leandro Erlich’s artistic approach: by way of investigating the ephemeral, illusive aspect of the visual world, he recreates or even reverses the given logic of architectural space. For this solo show at HOW Art Museum, Erlich will present the most recent version of his series Reflective Optical Illusion Building, a new interactive installation in resonance with the historical and cultural landscape of Shanghai. Named Building – Shanghai Bell Tower (Hanging on Time), this piece appropriates the style of the main building
of the former Shanghai Art Museum, now known as the Shanghai History Museum. While being “relocated" within the HOW Art Museum’s exhibition space and reflected in large mirrors, this “bell tower”, with its distinctive architectural style of 20th-century Shanghai, will be reactivated through its surreal interactions with the spectators. Within this delightful interruption of normal life, strangers can go beyond its constraints. Other showcased works include Staircase, The Classroom, Lost Garden…, which as a group make up the magical world constructed by the artist.

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