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Developing Time Life

Streaming on Lehmann Maupin

The Time-Life series, “Mysteries of the Unknown,” published between 1987 and 1991, consisted of 33 volumes, each book covering a different form of paranormal activity: UFOs, dreams, psychic powers, hauntings, mysterious creatures, and much more. Similarly, the seven paintings in Hernan Bas’s new exhibition “TIME LIFE” take inspiration from the blurred boundaries between the normal and the paranormal. Interweaving different oddities with mundane moments, Bas explores that strange transition—youth into adulthood. Meanwhile, this online offering explores his creation of “TIME LIFE.” —E.C.

Hernan Bas, “The Glow Fish Enthusiast (visor study),” 2019. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.