Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Grand Opening II
The other exhibit whose debut I saw last Friday with David and Daniel was MARS-1's 'Nuclear Mystic,' which manages to be psychedelic, busy and a bit too precious : - ) Like Nouar, it runs through March 21 at Jonathan LeVine, 529 W 20th 9th floor-E, btw 10th & 11th.
...and vaguely vaginal.... MARS-1 is the monicker chosen by Mario Martinez, who aims for 'urban-Gothic, sci-fi abstracted, quasi-organic form... like the sentient ocean of 'Solaris'
I rather prefer his 'sculptures,' including this grey town worthy of a Tim Burton animation...
...these spacemen sculptures also caught my fancy...
Refreshments resting with a cactus leaf... ...and a gaggle of artworld-istas converge around the non-luxuriant refreshments..
Speaking of Solaris, here's three minutes from that Russian classic by Tarkovsky.. a scientist's dead wife brought to life by a sentient ocean...
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