Leo Koenig Inc, Andes is delighted to present Pizzicato, a group exhibition featuring works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stan Douglas, Candida Höfer, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Luisa Lambri, Brandon Lattu, Martha Rosler, and James Welling.
The musical term pizzicato—a directive for string players to pluck rather than bow—prompted the idea for an exhibition that explores a synesthetic, visual aesthetic, one where staccato, interrupted rhythm, and intellectual tension emerge. In music, pizzicato passages are precise, fleeting, often percussive. Here, the artworks chosen evince sharp contrasts, formal restraint, conceptual compression, or sociopolitical dissonance. This presentation focuses on artists whose practices divulge these ruptures and silences—plucking a singular note that perhaps abruptly decays, but has the ability to reverberate with deeper meaning.
Pizzicato presents a dialogue between structure and disruption. The rigorously composed industrial typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher find counterpoint in Stan Douglas’s layered reconstructions of history and media, where fiction and fact intertwine. Candida Höfer’s interiors offer eerie stillness and sharp clarity, while Sam Taylor-Johnson introduces a physical and psychological disorientation, expounding on time dilated, arrested movement—in her charged imagery.
Luisa Lambri and Brandon Lattu navigate modernist architecture with a lyricism that borders on critique. Lambri’s subtle framings defy architectural authority, reducing monumentality to intimate gestures, while Lattu’s interventions fragment perception itself. Martha Rosler’s photographs deliver a distinctly political pizzicato—direct and disarming, where visual syntax is disrupted to reveal systemic contradictions. Meanwhile, James Welling’schromatic experiments transcend photography’s conventions, evoking a dissonance between medium and meaning.
Tensions between the formal and the conceptual, the historical and the immediate, the seen and the unspoken, are foregrounded, inviting viewers to listen with their eyes, and to attend to the spaces between the notes.
The Gallery is open Fri-Sun 12-6 pm. For more information please email us at Andes@leokoenig.com or call us at 212.814.5422. For more information on the artists in the exhibition, we invite you to explore these links:
https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher
https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/stan-douglas
https://www.skny.com/artists/candida-hofer
https://www.thomasdanegallery.com/artists/42-luisa-lambri/works/
https://www.brandonlattu.net/
https://www.miandn.com/artists/martha-rosler
https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/james-welling
https://samtaylorjohnson.com/