Exhibition of new sculpture by Charles Long inaugurates Tanya Bonakdar Gallery`s space in Los Angeles
(Artdaily.org)

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opened its doors in Los Angeles with husbands sons fathers brothers, an exhibition of new sculpture by Charles Long, marking the artist’s twelfth solo presentation with the gallery. The four works which make up the exhibition were born within the circumference of the artist’s major installation, paradigm lost, currently on view in the Hammer Museum`s Made in LA. If paradigm lost offers a place to contemplate a new paradigm amidst the aftermath of an imagined patriarchal apocalypse, husbands sons fathers brothers presents the prologue—the paradigms of identities we still must contend with before they can be properly abolished and transcended. What these two distinct bodies of work do share is a relentless common denominator: a sole motif divined by Long from an anatomical cross-section of human male genital anatomy, which also resembles a kind of ancient mask. Each of Long’s four