Verso (Andy Warhol, Candy Box (True Love), 1984), 2025, wood intarsia/inlay, 34.2 x 26.7 x 3.8 cm
Guest exhibition at Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Unit 7, 88 Mile End Road, E1 4UN
Preview Wednesday 21 May 2025, 6-8pm
Kendall Koppe is delighted to announce Michael Bühler-Rose's first exhibition with the gallery and in the UK, True Love Today | Today True Love. Continuing our series of exchange, collaboration and expanded dialogues between galleries, colleagues and artists - the guest exhibition takes place at Carlos/Ishikawa, London (Unit 7).
True Love Today | Today True Love continues Bühler-Rose's exploration of versos of significant works throughout art history, and the broad, layered context that ownership, provenance, value and memory points to. Originally trained in photography, Bühler-Rose initiates these meticulous compositions via carefully researched photographs. The work is then constructed in wood intarsia, or inlaid wood mosaic, a method likely derived from South Asian ivory and wood inlay traditions, using only the natural colours of wood, with no added dyes or paints. In Europe, this process found its richest expression during the Italian Renaissance.
Michael Bühler-Rose (American, b. 1980) lives and works in between New York, NY and Mysore, India. He received his BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University, a Fulbright, India and his MFA from University of Florida, Gainesville.
Solo exhibitions include: Stems Gallery, Brussels; New Discretions, New York; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Carroll and Sons, Boston; Scaramouche, New York; Light Work, Syracuse and the Everson Museum, Syracuse. He was part of a two-person exhibition with A.A. Bronson at Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany in 2013. Recently he has exhibited with Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York; 601Artspace New York; Wasserman Projects, Detroit; Sean Horton, New York; Jimei x Arles, Jimei; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL amongst others.
His work is included in public and private collections such as the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore; Ford Foundation, New York; Fidelity Investment, Chennai; Light Work Syracuse, NY; Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; SK Stiftung Kultu, Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne.