Basho Revelations

on view until July 23, 2022

Galería Marta Cervera
Calle Valencia 28
28012 Madrid

In Basho Revelations, Zak explores the relationship between visual arts and music: I have named a few paintings in recent years after musical instruments. I sometimes see paintings as more analogous to the objects that make music than to the music itself. As immaterial, music is more akin to one's experience of a painting, not the painting itself. The veena is a string instrument played in Indian classical music. My larger paintings aspire to the scale - the long durations - of this kind of music.

Zak Prekop (Chicago, 1979), lives and works in Red Hook, New York. He studied at Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt, Germany; School of the Art at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; and School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prekop’s work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1 in New York City; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, the Cluj Museum in Romania; the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Maxwell Graham / Essex Street in New York City; Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago; and Hagiwara Projects in Tokyo, Japan; among others.

His work has been included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. 

Hassla Books published a book of Prekop’s work in 2018.