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\"Night<\/a>

Hans Op de Beeck, still from Night Time<\/i>, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY. \u00a9 Hans Op de Beeck<\/p><\/div>\n

The Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck\u2019s new show, The Drawing Room<\/em><\/a>, opens tonight at Marianne Boesky Gallery. Among its sculptures and watercolors\u2014painted after nightfall, when \u201call of the machines in his studio were switched off, the phones stopped ringing, and his staff had left\u201d\u2014is a fifteen-minute animated film, Night Time<\/em>, produced from some six years of paintings. These three stills give a sense of its perturbing, placid, faintly vatic style: they read as a series of nocturnal establishing shots, each a study in tranquil desolation. They put me in mind of Daniel Lopatin\u2019s synthesizer composition \u201cZones Without People<\/a>.\u201d \u201cI just like the spectator to be on his or her own,\u201d the artist told\u00a0Elephant Magazine<\/em> in 2011. \u201cHaving a fictional or fantasy character sitting there would be like an interruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Drawing Room <\/em>shows through May 2. <\/p>\n

\"Night<\/a>

Hans Op de Beeck, still from Night Time<\/i>, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY. \u00a9 Hans Op de Beeck<\/p><\/div>

\"Night<\/a>

Hans Op de Beeck, still from Night Time<\/i>, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY. \u00a9 Hans Op de Beeck<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of <\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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