NEW YORK, NY.- Nunu Fine Art, an international art program dedicated to presenting a broad cross-section of emerging and established talents founded by veteran dealer Nunu Hung in Taipei in 2014, is pleased to announce the debut of a new 2,000 square-foot outpost in New York City, opening on April 27, 2023. The first contemporary art gallery of its kind in Taipei to present an international artist roster, Nunu Fine Art remains committed to ongoing cultural exchange at its first location outside of Taiwan. The new space will open with an exhibition of new multimedia work by celebrated Cuban social practice artists Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández-Dueñas. REVERSE marks the artists’ first dual exhibition in New York City. The gallery will host a public opening reception with the artists on April 27, 2023, from 6–8 PM.
“I’m thrilled to be opening an outpost of Nunu Fine Art in New York City,” stated Nunu Fine Art Founder, Nunu Hung. “Since I first founded the gallery in Taipei, I have sought to build a wide-ranging international program to encourage unexpected cross-cultural exchange. This new space reflects this commitment. No other city appreciates cultural diversity quite like New York, and I’m delighted to expand upon that conversation.”
The inaugural exhibition will be followed by a solo presentation in June by Taiwanese artist ChiaoHan Chueh—the artist’s first presentation in the United States. The New York gallery will be directed by Jenny Mushkin Goldman.
REVERSE includes three new bodies of work by Ariamna Contino and Alex Hernández-Dueñas, created in close dialogue, and each derived from statistical scientific data and formed into artistic compositions across varying media such as paper, graphite, and glass. In addition to these key series, the exhibition features collaborative drawings and a large-scale, site-specific installation. Together, these works not only explore environmental challenges through the lens of natural water cycles in particular, but uncover the complex effects of geopolitics on fundamental biological cycles, urging the need for environmental ethics.
In REVERSE, the artists reference the notions of “sculpture in the expanded field” conceptualized by art historian Rosalind Krauss, relating such ideas to their own concept of “total cartography,” whereby the landscape functions as a document. Paper works document patterns of diverse ecosystems, such as glaciers, marshes, mangroves, and deltas. Layers of cut paper in a single work depict the same location at different points in time to reveal the topographical impact of climate change. The works ultimately seek to connect two archetypal landscapes—Havana’s eroding coastline and that of the retreating glaciers, both bound by water, itself a central element of the exhibition.
