Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles presents a special solo exhibition by the artist Anne Imhof titled “EMO.” For her Los Angeles debut, Imhof experiments with sculpture, painting, and film in a surreal installation of coordinations and contradictions. In poetic layers of animal, nature, man, and machine, the artist pays respect to the historical spectacle that is L.A. On the gallery’s first floor, visitors will encounter a jungle of industrial water tanks radiating in crimson lights, playing with angst and expectation. Technicolor paintings alluding to live performances of the past and aluminum works offer mysterious, abstract gestures in blazing red and turquoise hues. The second floor presents a large-scale billboard and two new films. Youth (2022), created in Moscow, follows an array of horses reveling in the snow, set to Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach. In potent juxtaposition, the film evolves to spotlight a stark housing development within the city.
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