| Erik Frydenborg opens second solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles |
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- In his second solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin, Erik Frydenborg develops a sustained examination of a single, found scholastic illustration. Through a series of dissections, alterations, and physical reconstructions of the original image, Frydenborg merges elements of collage, sculpture, display architecture, and a “timeline” of taxonomic wall reliefs, constructing a chimerical museum environment. In an elliptical blending of analysis and fiction, the objects on view are presented as historical artifacts from the obsolescent work of a vaguely described, possibly delusional academic-- likely discredited in his methods, and separated by an irretrievable distance from our own era. In its staging of these ersatz specimens, Dr. (illegible) traces read full article
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