{"id":10186,"date":"2012-02-29T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2012-03-02T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:02:07","slug":"brucennial-2010-a-quick-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/02\/29\/brucennial-2010-a-quick-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"~BRUCENNIAL 2010 – A QUICK LOOK BACK !! – ARCHIVAL PIX – FROM THE INAUGURAL OPENING . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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some archival pix – from the artlovers photo vault !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

the opening night . . . of the first ever . . . BRUCENNIAL (2010) <\/strong> – a hyper lively, widely diverse, and cutting edge accurate !! group exhibit presented by the BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION – in collaboration with VITO SCHNABEL – that went head-to-head with the 2010 WHITNEY BIENNIAL – and came out on top – in many people’s minds, and not just mine !! <\/p>\n

the opening took place on FEB 26, 2010 – at a pop-up space on West Broadway in Soho.<\/p>\n

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\nJONAH EMMERSON-BELL of BHQF\/BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION – puts some last minute touches into the show – just before the doors opened . . . <\/p>\n

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\nRAINGER PINNEY.<\/p>\n

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\nRAINGER PINNEY . . in his one person mobile ‘isolation’ tent.
\n(ha. do I want one !!)<\/p>\n

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\na set of work by RAINGER PINNEY . . . <\/p>\n

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\n‘UTOPIA IS GAY’ . . . right on.
\nJONAH EMMERSON-BELL, 2008, neon, 36 x 36 ins.<\/p>\n

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\nVITO arrives . . .<\/p>\n

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\nVITO SCHNABEL – at the inaugural BRUCENNIAL 2010 – which he co-presented & curated with the BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION.<\/p>\n

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\nARTURO VIDICH . . with his one person wooden cabin. (!!)
\none person tent, one person cabin. standing room only. what is it, they say, about ‘like’ minds ? you just can’t beat that – for 21st C. social observation !! the absolute invert of facebook. the one man in his own mind, or: your ‘isolation’ home – is<\/em> your castle !! <\/p>\n

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\n‘HOLY BIBLE’ – by THE SPECIALIST.
\nin the background, Arturo Vidich on his hands and knees, putting the finishing touches on his ‘one man’ cabin – and yes, you gotta to be ‘upright’ – to fit in it. yes, pun intended !! it was on wheels, so I guess you could pull it along behind you, and bring it with you anywhere, the cabin, not the bible . . . though it, the Bible – looks pretty functional (!!) too. full of metal tools in custom carved-out slots.<\/p>\n

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\nframed drawing by HARMONY KORINE.<\/p>\n

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\nit was a huge sprawling blast of high energy . . looking out onto the art world ghosts of West Broadway . . . past, most notably in the early 1980s: LEO CASTELLI, and the first big MARY BOONE gallery.<\/p>\n

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\nsome corners were pristine and stark … hyper bold. quiet. mysterious. realist and fanciful. <\/p>\n

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\nothers were just outright unpredictable and crazy wild in a quiet way !! in a 3D space – mind-thought driven way. <\/p>\n

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\nha. a piece by RAMBO \/ Lance.<\/p>\n

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\nfeaturing an archival photo of a young Rambo . . . and<\/em> a young Vito.<\/p>\n

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\nLUKE JOHNSON . . .<\/p>\n

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\nbrought along some of his home-brew.<\/p>\n

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\nthough there was plenty of the store-bought kind too. and outside: there was snow and deep deep water, those super inner-city kind, that made oceans at every street corner – and defied all footwear.<\/p>\n

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\nok – they sure know how to throw an art show, and a party. a few more shots – BRUCENNIAL 2010, BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION with VITO SCHNABEL, SOHO, NYC. FEB 26, 2010.<\/p>\n

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\none “Bruce”.<\/p>\n

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\ntwo “Bruce” . . . <\/p>\n

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\nthree “Bruce”.
\nyou know: one for all, and all for one. damn straight, one “Bruce” means . . . a whole pack of “Bruces” !!
\nartist, Bruce. no diff. same thing. it’s all just words, anyways.
\n(uber conceptualist Gerald Ferguson, are you smiling down ?)<\/p>\n

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\nand hell, yes. there were girls . . . <\/p>\n

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\nand, muses.<\/p>\n

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\nso, not all that surprising . . . even a re-consitituted “Picasso” made the scene.
\npainting by RAY SMITH.<\/p>\n

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\nas did everybody’s favorite papa bear – JULIAN. (Schnabel)
\nPicasso . . . , Julian, no diff. <\/p>\n

. . . so that’s just a little ‘look-back’ snapshot of the inaugural BRUCENNIAL 2010 – little did the conventional art world know – what had been unleashed . . . or that it would continue. the guts and verve of the city’s raw talent – knock knock knocking down all those proverbial institutional walls. all those played-out, way past expired reputations, just big pr, big budget, professional ‘curator’, no real content, all pretension, no real hoopla museum survey shows – trying to sell us, oops I mean, tell us – they’ve caught the city’s, (or the world’s !!) cutting edge. NOT!!<\/p>\n

way to go, true sons of New York City. let’s see if you can double it up – this time around. (and bet the opening night crowd for 2012 !! – is gonna be huge . . .) <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC. FEB 26, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

some archival pix – from the artlovers photo vault !! the opening night . . . of the first ever . . . BRUCENNIAL (2010) – a hyper lively, widely diverse, and cutting edge accurate !! group exhibit presented by the BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION – in collaboration with VITO SCHNABEL – that went head-to-head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10289,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions\/10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}