Piece Unique refers to one work by an artist being shown in a small cube like space on the second floor of the gallery. The concept relates to the space founded in Paris in 1988 by the legendary Naples art dealer Lucio Amelio and his business partner Marussa Gravagnuolo who still runs the space today. The original concept was to exhibit one new art work at a time realised especially for the space. Alison Jacques Gallery have developed this concept to encompass not just new site specific work but also the idea of historic work shown in isolation so the viewer can experience and focus on the significance of one work at a time.
“With paint and patina, cast bronze can be made to look eerily like an array of things – from wicker canning to flower buds – with almost indexical texture: this is nothing but the starting point of mimesis as a mode of abstraction, which Craft finesses almost to the extreme of nonrepresentation. She removes the “safeties,” risking the presentation of stuff specific, familiar, and yet uncannily off…”
Bruce Hainley, catalogue essay for Liz Craft monograph, Halle für Kunst, published by JPR Ringier, 2006
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