A detail from a work by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight VI, dated 2021.
A detail from a work by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight VI, dated 2021.

Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight

David Zwirner is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions of new work by American artist Carol Bove (b. 1971) at its 537 West 20th Street and 34 East 69th Street locations in New York. These presentations coincide with her work being featured in The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping (on view through November 2021) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Known for works that incorporate found and constructed elements with a unique formal, technical, and conceptual inventiveness, Bove stands as one of the foremost contemporary artists working today; her work has consistently challenged and expanded the possibilities of formal abstraction.

On view at the gallery’s West 20th Street space, Chimes at Midnight features a group of seven large-scale, vertically oriented works in one of Bove’s largest installations yet. Bove’s new sculptures convey an apparent lightness that belies their materiality, and continue the artist’s engagement with the limits of physicality and perception. 

Working improvisationally at a monumental scale, Bove has constructed these sculptures by combining deftly manipulated and crushed steel tubing, painted vibrant red-orange, with leaning, bent sheets of salvaged hot-rolled steel. The individual works in the exhibition are unified, balanced compositions that relate to each other formally and chromatically, while together, they envelop the viewer in an immersive presentation that considers the phenomenological experience of form and the surrounding space. 

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Planning Your Visit

 

Please note the 20th Street gallery is open to the public with a limited number of visitors allowed into the exhibition spaces at a time, in accordance with city guidelines.

 

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Image: Carol Bove, Chimes at Midnight VI, 2019 (detail)

Dates
April 29June 18, 2021

See these Works in Person at the 20th Street Gallery

 

An installation view of Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, at David Zwirner, New York, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight I, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 80 x 57 inches (304.8 x 203.2 x 144.8 cm)
An installation view of an exhibition by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight, at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021.

Installation views, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

Installation views, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight IV, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight IV, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 62 x 40 inches (304.8 x 157.5 x 101.6 cm)
An installation view of an exhibition by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight, at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021.

Installation view, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

Installation view, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

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A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight V, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight V, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
121 x 66 x 54 inches (307.3 x 167.6 x 137.2 cm)
A found steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight VII, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight VII, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 60 x 54 inches (304.8 x 152.4 x 137.2 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight II, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight II, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 50 x 77 inches (304.8 x 127 x 195.6 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint sculpture by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight VI, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight VI, 2021
Found steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
125 x 96 x 64 inches (317.5 x 243.8 x 162.6 cm)
An installation view of an exhibition by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight, at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021.

Installation view, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

Installation view, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight III, 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight III, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 48 x 60 inches (304.8 x 121.9 x 152.4 cm)
A detail of a steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight I, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight I, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 80 x 57 inches (304.8 x 203.2 x 144.8 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight II, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight II, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 50 x 77 inches (304.8 x 127 x 195.6 cm)
A detail of a steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight III, 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight III, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 48 x 60 inches (304.8 x 121.9 x 152.4 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight IV, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight IV, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 62 x 40 inches (304.8 x 157.5 x 101.6 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight V, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight V, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
121 x 66 x 54 inches (307.3 x 167.6 x 137.2 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint sculpture by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight VI, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight VI, 2021
Found steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
125 x 96 x 64 inches (317.5 x 243.8 x 162.6 cm)
A steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint by Carol Bove, titled Chimes at Midnight VII, dated 2021.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight VII, 2021
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint
120 x 60 x 54 inches (304.8 x 152.4 x 137.2 cm)

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