These are 2 art pieces that are as intriguing and fascinating as they're creating an image of harnessing "electricity" to convey an artist's creative expression to the curious viewer. It reminds me of some characters in old Frankenstein's movies! 
Somewhere in this posting, you'd be led to a photo that's almost white, except for some dark colored parts, inside its framed borders. Can you see the forms of two white, low-flying birds from the photo (inside a photo)?
Imagine my delight at seeing in person the one who's actually the main subject of a photo in this current exhibit. I was glad I noticed the similarities in an instant. when two visitors glided in the small gallery where I do volunteer intern gallery work mostly on alternate Mondays for over 8 months now. Deciding fast, I asked the visitor to pose for a photo beside his portrait (on the opposite, in a role fitted in another costumed attire), and he agreed without much prodding; looking just as cool! He was even asked to make the same pose by his companion, but he thought another pose would be more fitting. Look at what can be seen as similar between the two subjects (one in photo set against in contrast to his photo on another portrait!).
Given the quality of some of the photos in this posting, you'd surely fail to give notice to those shots that are almost blurry (which could have been almost a mistake when I decided to post them here...what can I say to explain these photos? poor technical capabilities of my equipment ha ha ha ha!). They're actually jelly-like creations made out of used water bottles. They're clear plastic rehashed to look like the dreadful jelly fish, that are themselves opaque when you see them swimming in the open sea (most probably getting nearer to bite you!), ready to prey to their desired targets. These hanging plastic jelly-fish-like pieces are much safer, than the real thing, which I know bites and causes terrible wounds if treated badly out of panic.
Have you also noticed the etchings in black with CUCHIFRITOS more about it here! written backwards? They're of mylar tape, that prompted a regular visitor, who's an Italian sculptor (I figure he's traditional, in approach) based in Brooklyn, who visited that day, to remark: "Fantastic!" The creation excited him, and reminded him of decaying outcomes of industrialization, and the dehumanizing ill-effects of the use of technology in various aspects of human activity. He's always sounding profound to me, which can be utterly confusing to me whenever I ponder on what he shares me while I attempt to just listen to his opinions on the artworks he'd be seeing in other previous exhibits in the same gallery. He's been actually not as generous in his praises for some of the artworks he's seen here.
Another friend liked the photo on a forest with all the foliage showing all through out, and with a bloodied naked body with its back against the viewer. It could just be interpreted with about any idea related to something on the apparent wanton denigration of our ecosystem.
You'll also notice somewhere along this posting a photo showing weird looking wooden used tobacco boxes with some cute looking objects inside. elaborately mounted. Look at the individual photos, and you'd see more closely what's inside each box. Looking like stuffed laboratory specimens in 9 different wooden boxes, these are actually parts of skeletons of various animals and insects. Look more closely on each photo, and let your imagination be reminded of what kind of animals these could be?
This exhibit has been so far my favorite among all exhibits I've helped work for in presenting to an interesting mix of curious visitors, and guests inside a traditional market in the Lower East Side (LES). Last Monday, I remember two women, who could be a mother and daughter team (they looked Indian to me), pored with studied curiosity on the photos and the hanging objects. They never realized that there is a big number of art galleries at the LES, as I gave them a brochure of a listing of galleries, as they're more aware about the bigger and well known ones located in Midtown Manhattan. We got into a conversation on how these artists get themselves be exhibited in that small gallery. I remarked that these artists are basically those who are still working themselves out to be noticed by a market that's as finicky and unpredictable. The older woman remarked that these artists are certainly better, as they're "hungrier," which quality shows and get depicted better, as these creative expressions come from the gut (as she points to her tummy), and which has got me to thinking of artworks such as those shown here in this posting: more to the core of us human beings; more visceral; and more in touch with the artist's inner passions, creative longings, and desires. Come, take time to visit and support art galleries like this!
No comments:
Post a Comment