"Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley is the first mid-career survey devoted to artists and twin brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas (b. 1984, Austin, Texas), who founded their collaborative studio in Los Angeles in 2010. The duo is known for their artistic practice that cross-pollinates the fields of art, craft, design, and technology. The brothers' materially rich work reveals a frenzied creative imagination combined with a right-brain inventiveness-a process they refer to as "problem-solving fantasies.""
"Much of their art is a continuation of fictive characters, fantastic creatures, and other-worldly realms often filtered through cultural references and technological aesthetics of growing up in the 1990s and early aughts. Often irreverent and always meticulous, their artworks explore themes related to nature, fantasy, the subconscious, and the human experience. Conceptually, they embrace the surrealistic, the animistic, and the zoomorphic, for instance, to conjure alternative realms."
"The exhibition includes examples from the major bodies of work that the artists have been engaged with over the last 15 years presented through striking vignettes that bring to life the Haas Brothers' "worlds." It will also show how these works and worlds are made by highlighting their processes, material explorations, and innovations. The Haas Brothers have exhibited their work widely throughout the United States and abroad."
Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley presents a mid-career survey of twin brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas, who founded their collaborative studio in Los Angeles in 2010. The practice cross-pollinates art, craft, design, and technology and produces materially rich objects born of a frenzied creative imagination and right-brain inventiveness described as "problem-solving fantasies." Work continues fictive characters, fantastic creatures, and other-worldly realms influenced by 1990s and early-aughts cultural and technological aesthetics. Artworks explore nature, fantasy, the subconscious, and the human experience through surrealistic, animistic, and zoomorphic approaches. The exhibition displays major bodies of work from the past 15 years and highlights processes, material explorations, and innovations, accompanied by a 256-page monograph and recognition in major museum collections and awards.
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