{"id":13549,"date":"2011-03-25T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=13549"},"modified":"2011-06-29T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:59:38","slug":"paul-gabriellis-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/paul-gabriellis-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio: Paul Gabrielli\u2019s Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Paul Gabrielli is a young deconstructionist sculptor who often works with false trompe l&#8217;oeil. His current show, \u201cGenerally,\u201d includes a remarkable series of hung sculptures showcasing found, repurposed, and refined objects behind blister packs and mounted on backboards of edited landscape photography, toys lost in the uncanny valley between desire and critique. <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13554\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Toycloth2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13554\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13554\" title=\"Toycloth2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Toycloth2-e1301089965210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, 2010, cloth, aluminum, C-print, archival board, plastic, staples, oil, acrylic, 13 x 11 x 1\/2 in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I call these pieces toys, but they\u2019re more like tchotchkes. That might be a horrible thing to call a piece of art, but there\u2019s something to be admired about the tchotchke: you own it, but it doesn\u2019t function; you just kind of look at it. It\u2019s not a relationship, like with toys, where you can actually <em>play<\/em> with them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13557\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ToyMetal2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13557\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13557\" title=\"ToyMetal2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ToyMetal2-e1301090036678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, 2010, aluminum, C-print, archival board, plastic, staples, oil, acrylic, 12.5 x 10 x 1\/2 in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ideal form interests me because it\u2019s an impossibility. I want to bring that form as much as possible out of the mind and into something physical. It was important for me that there was somewhat of a close relationship between image and the actual object. The sculptures work like pictures because they derive from mental images rather than from sculptural forms. I was interested in their dumbness, their obviousness, their thoughtlessness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13559\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ToyRock2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13559\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13559\" title=\"ToyRock2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ToyRock2-e1301090075203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, 2010, rock, aluminum, C-print, archival board, plastic, staples, oil, acrylic, 12.5 x 10 3\/4 x 2 1\/2 in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The series relates to collectables, too, you know, and the people who don\u2019t unwrap the things that they\u2019re collecting. That\u2019s somehow very perverse, though it also preserves a romantic vision of it the object. (That\u2019s why it\u2019s perverse.)<\/p>\n<p>The works are preoccupied with desire, with desiring things that you already have\u2014even just shitty things, things that you could find anywhere and don\u2019t need to buy: a piece of cloth, or a ripped T-shirt, or a scrap of metal, a piece of wood, a rock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13560\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Toystripe2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13560\" title=\"Toystripe2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Toystripe2-e1301090127879.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, 2010, cloth, aluminum, C-print, archival board, plastic, staples, oil, acrylic, 13 x 11 x 1\/2 in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everything in the show is sort of a generic object. Every time you choose an object, it\u2019s not just about that specific object; it\u2019s also a kind of negative object, because you\u2019re not choosing every single other object in the world. I feel like I\u2019m turning my back on everything else in the world when I choose one item.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13561\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ToyWood1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13561\" title=\"ToyWood1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ToyWood1-e1301090179621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, 2010, wood, aluminum, C-print, archival board, nail, plastic, staples, oil, acrylic, 14 x 10 x 1 in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is something that happened to me when I was a child, with toys. I\u2019ll have this idea of what I want and somehow, somehow think it already exists in the world, and I go searching for it but never find it, and have to make it, in the end. The ideal that I already have in my head, I need to bring it to life somehow.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>Paul Gabrielli&#8217;s exhibition \u201cGenerally\u201d will be open at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invisible-exports.com\/\">Invisible-Exports<\/a>, in New York, through March 27.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Gabrielli is a young deconstructionist sculptor who often works with false trompe l&#8217;oeil. His current show, \u201cGenerally,\u201d includes a remarkable series of hung sculptures showcasing found, repurposed, and refined objects behind blister packs and mounted on backboards of edited landscape photography, toys lost in the uncanny valley between desire and critique. 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