{"id":20144,"date":"2014-01-23T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=20144"},"modified":"2014-01-23T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:42:53","slug":"15-warren-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/01\/23\/15-warren-15\/","title":{"rendered":"~15 WARREN . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSEAN VEGEZZI, the 3rd curator of 15 WARREN STREET, along with . . his Tribeca childhood pals: ABELINE COHEN, and ANDREW KASS.<\/p>\n

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\nif you don’t think a . . VOID, could be the heart of the matter, think again.<\/p>\n

it almost looked . . blood-like, from a distance.
\na detached, cut-out, human organ – blown up, hyper scale.
\nkept alive, on mechanical life-support.
\nin the basement. <\/p>\n

sci-fi does come to mind,
\nlike-wise, human ‘squishy’ ness, our fragile bio state vs the eternal beating heart, king of all earthly metaphors.<\/p>\n

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\nthis is SEAN VEGEZZI’s site specific piece for the show.
\nhow so much excitement could lie in . . such ‘silence’ . . . is also the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n

so much laid bare.
\nhistory. rawness. spatial definitions . . undone.<\/p>\n

so much open-fisted, plastic\/composition field . . ‘questioning’, and a twisting of perception, a twisting of imagination, a veritable, beating . . ‘heart’ in the center of the show.<\/p>\n

it speaks to: unbound.
\na state of reaching, of reaching beyond the usual visual ‘arts’ parameters . . by, ironically going to the very<\/strong> bottom. <\/p>\n

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\nthe subterranean, on fire.
\ntake away whatever metaphors you wish, they are aplenty, and they are yours . . for the asking. <\/p>\n

actual ‘light’ – was a big factor at play, in the show as a whole.<\/p>\n

this coppery color on fire, was even more interesting if you actually knew Mr. Vegezzi’s earlier, main body of work . . photographs taken in the deep forbidden underground infrastructure, the subterranean tunnels of the NYC \/ MTA – the subway system . . those photographs had a very eerie sour candy-like translucent \/ lime green light . . to them.<\/p>\n

from green comes copper.
\nfrom copper comes green, exposed to the elements.
\nin your imagination, move from the subterranean . . to the old church spires, all around you, in a big city like this,
\nthe core and the spires . . are very inter-related. the hidden basement cores, and the crowning roof spires, and they move with us, stationary and inter-related, just like time does: past, present, future. though one is as man-made, as the other is physics . . on the path of our planetary orbit.<\/p>\n

the deep basements and slightly wobbling towers – the man-made structures that mark cities, and stay rooted in place, as the planet turns, and spins. <\/p>\n

unless they are ‘downed’. of course.<\/p>\n

the artificial light glowing up like embers, from the excavation . . revealing the site-specific history, but also, art-wise: breaking down the usual white box walls, destroying most flat non-engaging surfaces, and challenging the usual art history ‘perceptions’ !! <\/p>\n

you walked through this show, you didn’t just . . view it.<\/p>\n

you walked around Mr. Vegezzi’s ‘pit’, and you saw a continuum though space, vis a vie the construction bags lined up against the wall. <\/p>\n

this was a break-down and break-away show, no doubt about it, the best of the best of the underground – literally popping up, and taking on all comers. esp the institutionalized . . ones.
\nNYC has a great history, of this. of art. of new generations popping up, and breaking down barriers.<\/p>\n

this was a ‘take-down’.<\/p>\n

it took as its stated target . . the current glut of no-where art, with very little meaning or plastic ‘freshness’, that dominates the scene, and its many no-where commentators, profusely citing paragraphs of art history, as if that meant . . anything really, about the work at hand. <\/p>\n

as if nothing has changed in a million years.<\/p>\n

not even a little thing like . . the digital revolution. <\/p>\n

not even a thing like growing up in the shadow of destruction, while the world as a whole, scientifically and culturally . . is on the cusp of ‘discovery’ and ‘communication’ . . so beyond, our ancestors’ broadest imaginations.<\/p>\n

15 WARREN STREET, 10007<\/a><\/p>\n

MORE PIX, to follow.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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