"The exhibition, staged in Diao's studio, brings together a number of paintings dating from 1984 until recent years contextualized by Diao's personal belongings, collection and living space."

"The work is only complete when it is
seen, received, and hopefully argued over." - David Diao



"There was a period around the beginning of the 80s when I didn’t do any work. The all-animating principles of newness and originality underlying modernism really broke down for me. Things only opened up again when I realized that the abstract painting I was making was already a type. Even abstraction, which tries not to be representation, was a kind of representation… I’d been interested in the Russian avant-garde." - David Diao (here)


David Diao: Franklin Street, 5th fl, 1974-2012
2 - 13 May, 2012

Curated by Pavel S. Pyś (Curator, Henry Moore Institute), in collaboration with Tanya Leighton. Tanya Leighton Gallery is delighted to announce David Diao: Franklin Street, 5th fl, 1974-2012. The exhibition, staged in Diao's studio, brings together a number of paintings dating from 1984 until recent years contextualized by Diao's personal belongings, collection and living space. Born in China in 1943, Diao moved to Hong Kong with his grandparents when he was six and joined his father in New York in 1955. He has worked in Lower Manhattan since the early 1960s, and first attracted attention with a solo exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1969. David Diao: Franklin Street, 5th fl, 1974-2012 resulted from close conversations between Diao and Pyś and celebrates a period of 38 years of work in his TriBeCa studio, highlighting key strands of Diao's work, his relationship to the studio and the city.

72 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013




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"Each one has its own weight, story and place, within Mari’s inner scenery, as he regularly uses the paperweights to keep in place the thousands of sheets of paper covered in sketches and ideas that flow around his studio."

Enzo Mari 's 'The Intellectual Work', an exhibition at Tanya Leighton

a selection of paperweights...

'The Intellectual Work' brings together a selection of paperweights Mari has been collecting for decades. They are both objets trouvés (industrial products, multiples, metal joints, discarded pieces of glass, door knobs, wood and metal samples, fossils…) and sculptural readymades assembled by Mari himself. Each one has its own weight, story and place, within Mari’s inner scenery, as he regularly uses the paperweights to keep in place the thousands of sheets of paper covered in sketches and ideas that flow around his studio.

But this is not the exhibition of a collection, nor the mere recreation of an atelier setting. Instead, the installation works as an ‘allegory’ – in Mari’s own words – of the essence of his practice, as much as of the practice of whoever undertakes ‘intellectual work’.









Throughout his life - as an artist, designer, teacher, and theoretician - Mari has investigated the role of the intellectual, the cooperation of thinking and doing, heads and hands, words and things. At the core of his working method there is the habit of saying no, an awful lot of nos (to himself in the first place, since he’s constantly unsatisfied about the results of his quest for function and beauty, but also to the pressing needs of the market). By building piles of mistakes and refusals, and holding them still with paperweights, Mari sets aside whatever doesn’t seem good enough, or durable enough, or ethical enough, in his own views, every day.

It’s within this context, that the installation will open up a series of subsequent ‘dialogues’ with the works – created specifically for this occasion – by three artists (and Mari admirers) equally challenged and informed by the notion of ‘intellectual work’ and its possible declinations: Jason Dodge, Tim Rollins and K.O.S, Pavel Büchler.



all text from Tanya Leighton's site here.
all photos by Carlo Lavatori

Tanya Leighton Kurfürstenstraße 156 10785 Berlin





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