AAKASH NIHALANI

2013-02-07 04:05

From blog Artfully Awear

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AAKASH NIHALANI

I originally became interested in the work of Aakash Nihalani in 2010, when a friend introduced me to his tape pieces . Nihalani uses neon gaffing tape to create, miraculously, statements on the way art and the city interact spatially. The exhibition, Portal , currently on view at the Jonathan Levine Gallery , was my first encounter with Nihalani's paintings. I missed the grit of the street works, which are powerful simply because of the way they confront the viewer, who could just be a passerby on the street. However, the bold, bright works are visually arresting, and reminiscent of Minimalist works by artists such as Frank...

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