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Stephen TalasnikPanorama: Monolithe intime

September 07 - October 23, 2010
Opening: September 7, 2010 6:00 PM

Battat Contemporary is pleased to present the work of American artist Stephen Talasnik with his inaugural Canadian exhibition entitled, Panorama: monolithe intime. Working primarily within the media of sculpture and drawing, Talasnik produces sprawling, fantastical, architectural landscapes. Executed with detail and precision, these works open up unexpected and unfolding worlds, which seem to exist outside of defined time and space. Within these worlds, viewers are invited to imagine endless spatial and fictive possibility.

Originally from Philadelphia, Stephen Talasnik attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. Although formally trained in design his work in drawing, painting, and sculpture is the result of a self taught process. In addition to his time in Rome, he also lived for 3 years in Tokyo, Japan and did extensive travel throughout the Far East studying indigenous hand built architecture. In addition to the US, he has shown extensively in Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands and his work is included in such public collections as the Albertina (Vienna) British Museum (London), and the Staatliche Museen of Berlin (Germany). He lives and works in New York City.

This exhibition is accompanied by a 87 page colour publication featuring texts by Andreas Schalhorn (Curator of Contemporary ArtKupferstichkabinett — Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) and Michael Sorkin(Architect, New York), which is for sale at the Gallery.