FUMED at Polvo
FUMED opened at Polvo tonight.
The curator Jaime Mendoza had this to say:
| The participating artists have either practiced Graffiti for creative pursuits or have been influenced through contemporary urban culture. |
Nino Rodriguez’s small paintings, especially the one pictured above center; have an elegant sense of line and color, which contrasts well with their somewhat brutal lyrical content.
In a mini-installation parallel to the Graffiti show Marcella Chaidez presented a wonderful sculpture resembling a small bustier with umbilical cord constructed out of dyed blue holes punched from books. Which of course raises the question, which books?
It is perhaps more proper to say that the sculpture resembles the shell of a torso, a shell representing a small child. However my first thought was bustier. That thought, mistaken as it might be, is infecting my read.
The thing about these blue punched paper holes is that they look like sequins. They look like sequins a lot! They also appear to be fused to the body. What we are left imagining is a child beauty pageant fire which fuses a blue sequin dress to a pageant model. Any critique which reaches Michael Jackson is then automatically complete.
December 3rd, 2005 at 8:19 am
Marcella Chaidez
I love this! It is fantanstic!
June 11th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
blue “bustier”
To me it resembles some organ like a heart bled out (perhaps more like a fetus, as you say), but the sequin-like seem to me as shed scales of some molting or dead reptile, perhaps even skinned and hung as one might a rattlesnake to desicate in a desert. Or is that simply too much?
N. Hale
June 17th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Re: blue “bustier”
Hello Mr. Hale!
One can never be Too Much!
*grin*