PROTEIN RECITAL

Bonelli Contemporary is pleased to present PROTEIN RECITAL, the debut solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Erik Frydenborg. The exhibition opens April 4, 2009, and runs through May 16, with an opening reception at the gallery on Saturday, April 4, from 6-9 pm.

In his first solo exhibition at Bonelli Contemporary, Erik Frydenborg incorporates a selection of new generative sculptures and graphic works in a multifarious installation. PROTEIN RECITAL integrates an amalgam of repetitive presentation modules, improvised cast sculptures, and digital prints derived from found and altered images, evincing a fusion of analytic and lyric gestures. The resulting synthesis alludes in some measure to instructional modes of representation—scholastic illustration, anatomical display—while simultaneously operating as a vehicle for rhythmic interplay and formal abstraction.

Examining and dissecting idealized pictorial models, Frydenborg repurposes their constituent parts-- obscuring their informational content in favor of foregrounding their abstruse qualities. In PROTEIN RECITAL, outmoded illustrations of food chains,
wireframe topography, and fragments of biological flotsam are doctored, replicated and reassembled, yielding building blocks for interpretive spatial compositions.

Frydenborg’s sculptures further elaborate a revision of didactic forms to create a holistic, synesthetic presentation. Introducing an array of objects whose individual components appear synchronously anthropomorphic and abstract, Frydenborg transmutes
suggested clinical traces into a curiously euphonic ensemble.

Erik Frydenborg received his BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1999 and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2005. His work has been shown in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including Post-Rose
at Galerie Christian Nagel/Lempertz (Berlin) On the Road Again at Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco) and the previous Bonelli Contemporary exhibitions Kleveland and Delusionarium IV. He has also written extensively, including catalog essays for Tony
Matelli’s Fuck’d and the Oracle at Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria, and Sterling Ruby’s SUPERMAX 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.