~ANTONE KONST . . ‘CUTTINGS’ / MARIANNE BOESKY, NYC / OPENS THURS JAN 13

the opening – has been re-scheduled / from last week

ANTONE KONST – ‘CUTTINGS’
OPENS THURS JAN 13 / 5 – 8 PM
MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY, 509 West 24 Street, Chelsea, NY 10011


ANTONE KONST, ‘Last Flowering’, 2021
Oil on Canvas / 78 x 60 in.
image via the artist & the gallery

I’m thinking . . .
Water & Wood . . . give life to Flowers
the title of the exhibit – ‘Cuttings’, and of course / the title of this specific painting, ‘Last Flowering’, . . could very well invoke – a Year of the Water Tiger . . mindset.
it’s . . . fierce !!
and, it’s . . complicated.
note: the primal vase, and, the little ‘tiger’ striped . . bees /
I’m thinking . . .
“Float like a butterfly, sting – like a bee.” (M. ALI) / the bee, being both ecologically essential, and potentially – dangerous.
btw: the Chinese color for – good luck / RED !!


ANTONE KONST, ‘Tiger Lilies’, 2021.
oil on canvas / 78 x 60 in.
note: the vase & the self-evident tiger-striped / flowering.
image via the artist & the gallery


ANTONE KONST, ‘Meadow’, 2021.
oil on canvas / 78 x 60 in.
image via Instagram @annntone

from the press release:

“The flower is a cosmic attractor, an ephemera, unstable body that allows one to perceive –
that is, to absorb – the world.”
~Emanuele Coccia

” . . . Composed from reference photographs taken by the artist over the last year combined with sources from popular culture and art history, Konst roots each bouquet of oversized blossoms in animated vessels. The result embodies a range of psychological states that shift throughout each composition’s many expressions.”

” . . . Konst, whose family has been growing cut flowers in the Netherlands for generations, created this body of work while reflecting on philosopher Emanuele Coccia’s idea that the form of the flower is a ‘laboratory of conjunction’, a space where disparate things – memories, emotions, motivations, temporalities, and aesthetics in this case – can co-exist.”
Antone Konst, (b. 1987) lives & works in Brooklyn.

see more images & the full text: ANTONE KONST – ‘Cuttings’ / gallery website


follow: ANTONE KONST on Instagram / @annntone

from the artloversnewyork archive:


ANTONE KONST, with friend JOHN ANGLES,
at the opening of Antone’s exhibit, ‘Love and Fear’, Tilton Gallery, NYC
SEPT 11, 2019
Archival Photo: NANCY SMITH

see: ANTONE KONST, ‘LOVE & FEAR’ / artloversnewyork