The linked article is a review for Islands, the exhibition of Aakash
Nihilani’s installation at Signal Gallery in New York.
Each piece that forms Nihilani’s installation
has significant resemblances of Donald Judd’s industrial sculptures. Even though Nihilani’s arrays of
minimalistic shapes are now completely flat on the wall, the artist still maintains the spatial interactivity by employing the forced perspective. According to the article, Nihilani is inspired by the array of geometric shapes on New York
streets. Through the exhibition, Nihilani intends to make the audiences aware of how they view their
surroundings while they are walking on city streets. Moreover, Nihilani usually uses
vivid hues for his work by working with neon-colored tapes. For this exhibition,
he only used black so the artworks are fully in contrast against white
gallery walls.
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