"The Metaphysics of the Runner" by Neringa Černiauskaitė & Ugnius Gelguda at 321 Gallery, NY

May 14, 2014
Author Echo Gone Wrong
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Ugnius Gelguda & Neringa Černiauskaitė, After Effects, 2014, Full hd video, 0:36 sec (film still). Special thanks to Lukas Miceika (Vodaka Jugend)

From May 17 through to June 15 321 Gallery (321 Washington Avenue, NY) features The Metaphysics of the Runner by Lithuanian artists Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda.

Street level. Medium shot frames a busy stretch of city sidewalk in front of contemporary shop windows where passers-by walk briskly alone and in groups, chatting, making phone calls, carrying shopping bags. Someone pauses outside a shop below a large window sign: SNEAKERS. Behind the wide, glass pane, single training shoes, each displayed on an individual shelf, are arranged like jewels. Electric blue, salmon pink, warm grey, cool grey, fluorescent orange, and maroon details float on a tide of white leather. The shopper’s eyes roam over the display. Reflections of the cobbled European street and passers-by shimmer on the glass, melding shoes and scenery. A green park is visible in the far background. Suddenly, the runner appears in the glass, darting among cars and people, then disappears again, absorbed by the street. The window shopper pulls away from the window, moves on.((Perri MacKenzie, A Running Composition, 2014.))

Move, follow the runner.

321.

From the future to the past.

123…

An exhibition featuring a collaboration with Jeannine Han, Ray Kurzweil’s sonic imagination, post-organic drinks.

Opening Reception Saturday, May 17  6 – 9 pm

Ugnius Gelguda and Neringa Černiauskaitė started collaborating in 2009. Both artists are based in Vilnius and Brooklyn, New York. Their solo shows include venues of kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga (forthcoming), Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius (forthcoming), The Metaphysics of the Runner, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NADA NY (2014), Anything is always nearby or next to something else, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (screening event) (2013), Now More Than Ever, Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius (2012). Their work has been featured in group shows at CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art, New York, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (forthcoming), ar/ge Kunst Gallery Museum, Bolzano, Italy (2013).