Todd Molinari (@toddmichaelmolinari )
๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐๐๐, 2025
Giclรฉe print on hot press paper
24โ x 28โ
๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด is an ongoing photographic project upon which artist Todd Molinari (@toddmichaelmolinari ) embarked as a sustained engagement with the question of what defines or determines success and failure in our current historical period. It is also a recognition: the recognition of image-fatigue, of the forces that conspire to devitalize the human, of the wreckage of absolute utopias and their effects on art. Rather than proposing an end to art, ๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด considers the exhaustion of its current mode of contemporaneity. In its wake, the exhibition opens space to renegotiate the conditions of the definitions of art and the conditions of the possibility of art-making in the face of repetition, unfulfilled promise, and structures of ignorance.
At a moment when accepted definitions of โcontemporary artโ feel increasingly unsatisfactory and not up to the challenges of our times, the exhibition investigates what remains obscured beneath dominant aesthetic languages and cultural narratives โ and which new forms of expression become possible once those structures begin to recede. ๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด is both an investigation of the contemporary and a deliberate destabilization of the familiar, of cultural muscle memory and what is accepted as second nature.
๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด does not have the pretensions to give definitive answers. It is, in fact, an invitation to restless inquiry and to committed dissatisfaction without the cheap consolations of โquick fixesโ or aesthetic tricks. Instead, it engages these tensions directly, producing works that embrace vulnerability, ambiguity, and emotional immediacy as necessary forms of inquiry.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ต, ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ด & ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ.
after / time gallery is honored to present the long-awaited solo exhibition of one of its original founding members, Todd Molinari. Please join us next week to celebrate the opening of ๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐น๐ฉ๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ด & ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ.
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Todd Molinari
๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด
May 14 - June 6, 2026
โ๏ธ Stay tuned.
Thank you to Marius Lehene and Aitor Lajarin-Encina for a most wonderful exhibition! View ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ at /2026/iamthedistance.
Photodocumentation:
Aaron Wessling / @singlefile_studio
Aitor Lajarin-Encina / @aitorlajarin
Left to right:
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
8โ x 10โ
๐๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
10โ x 8โ
Photodocumentation:
Aaron Wessling / @singlefile_studio
Marius Lehene / @marius_lehene
๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ, 2019
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
40โ x 50โ
Photodocumentation:
Aaron Wessling / @singlefile_studio
