\nit’s MARTIN is . . just an ‘A’ away from being: MARTIAN.
\nit’s MARTIN turns everything upside down, and comes up: roses.<\/p>\n
which is just another way of saying . . . <\/strong><\/p>\n in light<\/strong> of the great Brit<\/strong> success at Christie’s this week, and the beautiful, gorgeous sunshine streaming down on a brisk New York City today . . .<\/p>\n you might want to get yourself downtown<\/strong>, close to the open spaces of the west side . . and the water, where you can check out a Brit<\/strong> . . who not only comes with a strong secondary market already attached . . MARTIN CREED – GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE<\/a> – 620 GREENWICH ST – DOWNTOWN WEST SIDE, NYC it was absolutely jaw-dropping . . presented when GBE first debuted that new annex. oh momma, it was bold. it was silent<\/strong>. it was huge. it was vast. the looped footage was so primal, so graphic, so in your face. <\/p>\n it was: scary. <\/p>\n it was everything in 2 mins. that ‘GRAVITY’ in 2 hrs .. was NOT.<\/p>\n esp silent, and . . awesome.<\/p>\n GAVIN & CREED vs BULLOCK & CLOONEY, well you know who wins that. <\/p>\n I would even say, the ‘space’ felt like QUIET did, more a ‘spaceship’, than a white box exhibit.<\/p>\n the humble ‘small’ gesture small paintings .. vs the huge primal ‘male’ principle of the universe.<\/p>\n the black and white paint echoing the black and white of the video loop ..<\/p>\n the ‘pyramid’ gradation of the painting, going to wider yet smaller bands, well you get the picture . . ‘rising’ !! I think the real beauty of the thing, the small paintings . . lie in their size vs the hugeness of the ‘cosmic’ principles, they imply.<\/p>\n art vs. the beauty of basic science.<\/p>\n
\nbut, who also happens to be more<\/strong> importantly, a bonafide: LIVE WIRE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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\nFLASHBACK TO: JUNE 2010:<\/strong>
\nyep, that . . MARTIN CREED.
\nthis was<\/strong> the first time I saw anything by MARTIN CREED, in person.
\nit was the summer of 2010, it was a real hot summer for art.
\nbut this screening at GBE . . aced it.<\/p>\n
\nit was so ahead of the usual art game . . it was: SCARY.<\/p>\n
\nit talked to space, and to .. bio-ness. the human condition, the human ‘creed’. and yes, you did feel lost in space.
\nthe exhibition space was . . that huge and raw.
\nthe gallery space still retained its original industrial rawness.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creed-rising-2.jpg\" "\\"creed-rising-#-2\\"")
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\nI guess you could call it .. CREED RISING. it was a loop of you know .. what.
\nthe force of nature, that opposes gravity. that ‘rises’.
\nthat keeps us . . going. as a race. reproduction.
\nit was definite one of the top ten art events . . I’ve ever witnessed.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creed-rising-industrial-ra.jpg\" "\\"creed-rising--industrial-ra\\"")
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\nnot that I haven’t seen a ‘dick’ rising in my lifetime.
\nit was the confluence of factors. esp the rawness of the yet untouched new space.
\nso industrial vs. the loop: which was so, bio.
\nthe room would go completely bright, full of natural & artificial light, to stark and completely dark, and the single most important ‘cornerstone’ to human welfare . . would loop. no words. no soundtrack.
\nzero. no adornment of any kind.
\nI was speechless. I was completely dumbstruck.
\nit was very physical. but it was also absolutely . . conceptual.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creed-rising-raw-bunker-.jpg\" "\\"creed-rising-raw-bunker----\\"")
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\nthere was a bunker mentality to the place, that reminded me of . . JOSH HARRIS and QUIET. ten years ago.
\nso it was an experience for me, that was both past and present.
\nand FUTURE .. with a really big capital ‘F’.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creed-rising-sec-guard-a-la.jpg\" "\\"creed-rising-sec-guard-a-la\\"")
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\nyo, when the security guard is alaughin’, and areading’ (!!) . . you know you are in the right place.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/creed-pyramids.jpg\" "\\"creed-pyramids\\"")
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\nMARTIN CREED also had some small black ‘pyramid’ paintings on the wall facing the huge screen . . which made perfect sense, in that context.
\nthe hugeness of the notion of ‘human’ creation vs. the smallness of the actual human ‘stab’ at creativity.
\nthe struggle to articulate both the infinite principles we are subject to, and the finite properties of the life we live.<\/p>\n
\nuniversal ‘principles’. duh.
\nor ‘doh’. whatever.
\nvery: ZEN.
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\n MARTIN CREED also has a small ‘pyramid’ painting in the new<\/strong> show, 2013.
\nexcept this time . . they are in color.
\nvery ‘plastic’.<\/p>\n
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