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<\/a>\nthe green light, on the left – was the doorway . . in.
\nyeah, it was a bit like Alice in Wonderland. you entered a tunnel into a timeless timeline.
\nthings were big, things were small. there were dark warrens, creaky stairs, and holes in the floor.
\ncaves in the walls. ad hoc wiring. improvised lighting, rainbow painted walls.
\nart and color and explosions of sheer untested, unnamed talent .. everywhere.
\nas a pop-up, it was the ultimate pop-up.
\ncatch it as it happens, because when it’s done, it’s a dance in the mind’s eyeball, is all.<\/p>\n
suits of art .. go f-ck yourself.<\/p>\n terrorists, fascists. you don’t define us. either. <\/p>\n maybe make that . . 2 sides of the same coin.<\/p>\n and, well. o.k. the corporate suits are<\/strong> taking over. inside 15 WARREN . .<\/a>
\nthe show made it’s most ‘overt’ political stand, in the front window . . the ‘frontispiece’.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nand what it said, was . .
\nthese 3 friends, the show’s young 20 something curators: SEAN VEGEZZI, ABELINE COHEN, and ANDREW KASS . . grew up in this neighborhood, Tribeca, and saw the World Trade Center, aka the Twin Towers come down.
\nthey couldn’t have been more than 10 or so, and it made a big big impact.
\na deep desire, not<\/strong> to turn to the dark, but to defy. to heat seek to the core of this great grit of a free state city, and tear away the layers, and love it to death. and in so doing, make their<\/strong> mark.
\na creative mark. a chaotic mark, a spark to the future, a gorgeous wild raw . . burn mark. just anything but a narrow ‘route’ defined by other peoples’ warring. in fact, I NO gun images in the entire show, plenty of shooting flames. and no doubt . . ‘messages’. but no guns. no bombs. no images of mass destruction. no body parts.
\nlike the press release said: this was a place of INQUIRY.
\nthis was a place of art.
\nthis was a place that stood up to SUITS !! <\/p>\n
\nthe mom & pop shops down there are going the way of the seedy dives, dirty egg shipping docks, and even the pool hall that used to line Duane St. New York City kids know the true<\/strong> meaning of the word ‘gentrification’, and not just how . . to spell it.
\nit happens that fast. it happens before they even hit their stride, as the next generation.
\nbut they owned a piece of it, and don’t you . . forget it.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHELLO, MY NAME IS KATE, and I WAS BORN . . on FRANKLIN ST. top floor of a fabric warehouse. 1986.
\nlong gone, turned into a big $$ lala condo land before I hit . . 2.
\nRivington & the BOWERY, up next. 10 years later, same story. whoosh.<\/p>\n
\nit was ALICE IN WONDERLAND. KIDS GROWING UP . . IN NYC.
\nno diff. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSURE, statements were there, for the taking . . if you wanted.
\nphilosophy. inquiry. metaphor . . .
\nI’ve seen the (unhappy) cube face, on the (unstable) tower. and I’m so digging it. I’m digging the raw space.
\nI’m feeling it.
\nI’m filing . . my report.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\ndamn . . what’s under that skirt ?
\nNYC . . the mother of us all.
\ngod is<\/strong> in the . . the details.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nad hoc sculptures leaning into raw walls, arrows and lit-up coffins, no guns.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nburning cars, white chicks, black comic book heros ?<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nGrecian oracles meet shaft ? <\/p>\n<\/a>
\npainted flames, hero chicks, politically incorrect ?
\nin a totally raw space . . awesome.
\nancient history \/ myths, storefront history \/ architecture, and just the . . magnetism of men vs women ?
\nwhat it ultimately meant didn’t really matter, it was just great to see this huge painted, cut-out explosion of energy come to life, and flame-out in this raw space, in a substantial, but contradictory ‘flat’ imagery format.
\na comic book frame . . come to life.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nmove over, RICHARD SERRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPOP POP POP and more POP.
\nCanal St. water ?
\ndefine: true grit !!
\ndefine: finesse. touche. voila. plus, I see the l-i-g-h-t ?
\ndefine: perfection \/ art . . in a row.
\nperfection \/ thought.
\nperfection \/ impulse brought to 3D.
\nthe red bottle tops, are wicked good. they say it all. POP POP POP.
\nPOP-UP !!
\nRAW CELEBRATION, WICKED GOOD CURAT-ION. <\/p>\n