ΒΟΟΚ:Aaron Curry, Fragments from a Collective Unity, STPI Gallery

Aaron Curry makes sculptures and paintings whose relationship to modernism is productively fraught. Incorporating a wealth of elements from popular culture––science fiction, video games, cartoons. Curry has developed a body of work that is both a recognizable continuation of art historical narratives and a caustic, critical, and often hilarious take on the established order. In recent years he has produced a group of large-scale aluminum sculptures that upend the classical poise of Alexander Calder, foregrounding instead a surreal biomorphism and seemingly improvised compositional flair. These objects translate the hands-on immediacy of his earliest sculptures at a municipal scale, emphasizing the democratic fervor that animates his project. An ongoing collage of the lineages of Disney, Picasso, and Chicago Imagism, Curry’s work provides a funhouse-mirror vision of the future of the Western tradition. The catalogue “Aaron Curry: Fragments from a Collective Unity” by STPI Gallery, published on the occasion of his first major solo exhibition in Southeast Asia. From his suspended “Grid-Trip Cluster” paper sculptures to the free-standing “Ghost Bone” series, Curry transformed the gallery into a starburst of fluorescent patterns and constellations which transport visitors into the ‘lost realm’ between the two- and three- dimensional. Characterised by saturated neon colors and evocative organic shapes, the biomorphic sculptural works, inspired by a myriad of art movements such as cubism and surrealism, are effortless drawings in space. Illusions of depth are created through offhand shading and crosshatch strokes and juxtaposed with blunt outlines and solid colors. Through this, Curry masterfully merges the experience of surface and dimensionality in a visually stimulating tango.-Efi Michalarou