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Hogar Collection
Gallery is pleased to present ¨Into the
Air¨, March 17 – May 1, 2006, an exhibition
of sculpture and works on paper by Alfonso Cantú
and Todd Rosenbaum, with an opening reception
on Saturday, March 18 from 6-9 pm. The works in the
exhibition find a commonality in their depicitons of the sky,
clouds, objects spinning out of control, explosions, metaphors
of creation and destruction, as well the stories they tell
of ephemerality and
exisitence. They seem to travel into the fragile space where
things verge on being out of control yet exist in a space
of complete harmony.
Alfonso Cantú’s work is a process
of reconfiguring and transforming the history, design, function,
and value of the objects and materials around us in everyday
life. The forms he creates oscillate between the symbolic/functional
significance of what the original object is and the alternate
meanings that can be produced by the cultural / art historical
context that contain their design. His interest is to enhance
and expose the underlying elements of states of temporality
that exist within architectural elements, domestic objects
and materials. In essence, how their representation and recontextualization
resonates in our experience of the space they / we inhabit.
Cantú will be showing large color pencil drawings on
paper that depict pedestal fans spinning out of control in
the sky as if in a catastrophic situation that is in it’s
final moments of existence and is getting ready to wisp away,
like the clouds that it agitates. He will also be showing
new sculptures using fans as an inspiration. He has recently
participated in the Bronx Museum - Artists In the Marketplace
program, was awarded a NYFA grant for sculpture and received
his MFA from Rutgers University and a MA at Goldsmiths College
in London.
Todd Rosenbaum’s work engages tragedy,
comedy, harmony, creation, destruction and the fragility of
existence. Using depictions of skyscapes that are filled with
clouds and explosions either at the precise moment of night’s
change to day, or at the center of the vacuum of deep space
at the instant of the beginning of “time”. They
are subversive scenes in that it is uncertain if they are
violent or serene. Clouds at times are either hiding what
we “think” is happening on the other side, or
they could be the effect of tremendous explosions. Explosions
that pose a question that is either subversively “political”
in the idea that they evoke war and destruction or they can
be seen as subversively “religious” in that they
speak of the creation of the grand cosmos. The true explanation
is not revealed, leaving the question as mysterious or sublime
as the experience we witness. Rosenbaum will be showing comic
book-like gouache paintings on paper as well as, steel and
cotton mobiles, ” floating cloud masses”, that
flutter in the air”. He is the co-director of Hogar
Collection Gallery and also received his MFA from Rutgers
University. |
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