The concrete sculpture Untitled (DomeIV) will join the exhibition THOMAS LAIL: Notes for the Future currently on view through Summer 2013 at Omi International Arts Center
Untitled (Dome IV) is comprised of forty, stacked, steel-reinforced cast-concrete triangles-- a quantity sufficient to construct a geodesic dome. The piece was previously exhibited at Masters&Pelavin in New York. At the close of the exhibition the work will join a related concrete piece on permanent view at Omi.
About the exhibition:
Architecture OMI is pleased to present Notes for the Future, a show of recent xerography paintings, works on paper and concrete sculptures by Thomas Lail, as the opening exhibition of Architecture Omi’s 2012 season.
Architecture OMI is pleased to present Notes for the Future, a show of recent xerography paintings, works on paper and concrete sculptures by Thomas Lail, as the opening exhibition of Architecture Omi’s 2012 season.
The exhibition is on
view through Summer 2013 and includes two new permanent works sited in the
Architecture Omi fields.
According
to Peter Franck, the director of Architecture Omi, “Lail’s work follows in the
tradition of history painting, but clearly speaks with the language of
architecture.” Lail’s large-scale collages chart the persistent dream and
tragedy of our lost Utopias. The artist works
look to a better, once-dreamed future—perhaps a regained past that never was—to
map a fleeting dream of Utopia.