Installation view
Vigil, 2017
Photograph courtesy of Morán Morán

Kon Trubkovich Vigil

Vigil is Kon Trubkovich’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Prints of paused stills from the home video archive of a family friend are used as stage sets for experimentation in these new works that present a departure from his practice of the last 10 years.. Anonymous figures move through various scenes. Familiar objects suggest the normalcy of quotidian life, and yet an oddness in the movements of the figures point at something else playing out, concurrently. A nondescript car idles in a Moscow courtyard; a cat makes its way, slinking down the stairs; a child holds an ambiguous object.

In Curtain Call (2017), two sections of a striped window curtain flutter in the breeze. Partially obscured is a video still of a two-story building, a running vehicle, and a hunched figure, dissolving into a field of unbleached titanium white. As with the rest of the paintings, Curtain Call is a testimony – not only to the artist’s memory, but to his increasing comprehension of what may have actually taken place.

Dates

October 13 - November 11, 2017

Opening Reception

Saturday, October 13, 6-8pm

Location

937 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

Artist

Kon Trubkovich

Installation Views

All images: Vigil, 2017. Photography courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Vigil, 2017
Photograph courtesy of Morán Morán

Artworks

Kon Trubkovich
Hunters in the Snow, 2017
Oil paint and UV ink on linen
62 x 59 inches
(157.5 x 150 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Village Idiots, 2017
Oil paint and UV ink on linen
51 x 39.5 inches
(129.5 x 100.5 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Mayday, 2017
Oil paint and UV ink on linen
34.5 x 29 inches
(87.5 x 73.5 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Final Rehearsal, 2017
Oil paint, oil stick, and UV ink on linen
55.5 x 44 inches
(141 x 112 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Mood, 2017
Oil paint and UV ink on linen
19 x 20.5 inches
(48.5 x 52 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Watcher, 2017
Oil paint, oil stick, and UV ink on linen
82 x 52 inches
(208 x 132 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Curtain Call, 2017
Oil paint, charcoal, and UV ink on linen
51 x 39.5 inches
(129.5 x 100.5 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Gifted Son, 2017
Oil paint, oil stick, and UV ink on canvas
60 x 80 inches
(152.5 x 203 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Dinner, 2017
Oil paint, charcoal, and UV ink on linen
33.25 x 23.5 inches
(84.5 x 60 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Putsch, 2017
Oil paint, charcoal, and UV ink on linen
84 x 58 inches
(213.5 x 147.5 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Untitled, 2017
Mixed media on paper
9 x 14.75 inches
(23 x 37.5 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Untitled, 2017
Mixed media on paper
6.5 x 6.75 inches
(16.5 x 17 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds

Kon Trubkovich
Untitled, 2017
Mixed media on paper
6 x 6.5 inches
(15 x 16.5 cm)
Photograph by Cooper Dodds