{"id":3258,"date":"2011-01-19T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:21:23","slug":"viking-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/01\/19\/viking-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"~VIKING INVASION\/DENNIS McNETT"},"content":{"rendered":"

not to mention, SHAMANS !!<\/p>\n

FILE UNDER: WONDER WHAT MATTHEW DAY JACKSON, THINKS BOUT THIS. <\/p>\n

last week to catch: DENNIS McNETT’S FLAT-OUT, ALL-OUT, NO-STOPS – ART WORLD TAKE-DOWN !!<\/p>\n

DENNIS McNETT – ‘REAPING WAVES AND VITAL VESSELS: THE PASSING OF THE WOLFBATS’
\nup through SAT JAN 22, 2011
\nJOSHUA LINER GALLERY – 548 W.28th ST – 3rd FLOOR<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nDENNIS McNETT – installation shot. carved wood, wood cut prints & screens, 2010<\/p>\n

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\nDENNIS McNETT – detail. talking bout: PATTERN, URBAN CODE.TAGS. INFORMATION – ENCAPSULATED.
\nPHOTOS BY: BROCK FETCH\/COURTESY: DENNIS McNETT FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM<\/a><\/p>\n

yeah, go back & check out: those FLICKR pix !! amazing production !!<\/a><\/p>\n

the show kicked off with a huge charade of a parade . . . hard-core street spectacle – viking style !! <\/p>\n

we’re gonna have to start calling New York City – HOME OF THE NEW CENTURY – SHAMANS !!<\/p>\n

I dare you to really, really<\/em> think on that – for a moment.<\/p>\n

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\nwatch the DENNIS McNETT – VIKING – PARADE on YouTube !!<\/a><\/p>\n

from the gallery press release:<\/p>\n

“JOSHUA LINER GALLERY, in collaboration with gallery artist DENNIS McNETT, is thrilled to present a first-ever, spectacular event in the streets of West Chelsea: ‘The Passing of the Wolfbats’.<\/p>\n

Part art parade, part shaman<\/strong> uprising, ‘The Passing of the Wolfbats’ will gather art enthusiasts and neighborhood residents for a celebratory procession through the heart of the New York art world. The purpose ? To wake up the city’s sleeping spirits of creativity, expression, and personal soulfulness . . <\/p>\n

Led by a Viking ship, drummers, marchers with banners and battleaxes, and a flock of Wolfbats – McNett’s signature symbol of transformation – the procession will feature many elements from the artist’s work, including mythological figures and folklore, animal and skeleton forms, and masks and costumes, all emblazoned with McNett’s distinctive linocut imagery . . . ”
\nyep, read more !!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\non the left: DENNIS McNETT, beside him MIKE HOUSTON of CANNONBALL PRESS
\nAHA\/AD HOC ART – ‘BROOKLYN BLOCK PARTY\/LINO CUTTERS’ – OPENING. BROOKLYN DEC 12, 2008
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

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\nDENNIS McNETT – WOODBLOCK PRINT DETAIL – ‘BROOKLYN BLOCK PARTY’
\nyeah, his work blew me away . . . . check out the full post – in our archives !!
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\nMATTHEW DAY JACKSON – with his ‘Viking Burial Ship’ – FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY, AUG 11, 2004
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

I say MATTHEW DAY JACKSON – because his big art world break-out happened when he exhibited his<\/em> viking ship !! in 2004.
\nsee: artnet\/ART LOVERS NEW YORK – PEOPLE SECTION\/11-17-2004<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMATTHEW DAY JACKSON – ‘Viking Burial Ship’.
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

SHAMANS have been on my mind for awhile now – shamans, codes, art magic. keys. dreams.
\nstarted with pictograms – and the complexity of their simple but powerful universal code – codes !! plural – their encoded information. how simple graphics – resonate – with a trove of information & data. started with catching those ‘frontier’ breaking hi-definition digital photographs of huge lost civilization mountain range pictograms in South America – on TV – picked up by overhead orbiter cameras, in outer space. continued through – internet guru turned painter – JOSH HARRIS . . . and I guess, can be found throughout human history. <\/p>\n

the oldest cave art: simple codes, a bison painting, a human hand palm print. cave paintings the oldest graphics – encapsulating human experience. holding a record of human history – we were here – that speaks to us, helps us unravel out very beginnings – even today. and for sure, at the time – was not just a sign of existence for future history seekers – but in real time – encapsulated graphic information – were n visual notes as in messages – keys of information – enablers. holders of shaman visions, dreams and record of moment, i.e. primitive internet – WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – caveman style – for our human ancestors – to help them with deal with the passing of time, and as well – a visual holding ‘tank’ – a code – a pictogram – containing and passing on to the person, or shaman who could grasp the message – and ‘write’\/’tag’ the new ones. primitive pictorial record keeping: history keeping & making . . . .before there was written language – and even after, urban name tag sticker bombing ? – because of course, there always things that cannot be expressed by words.
\npictorial ‘keys’ – in a nano-phrase: creativity.
\ntaking the ‘humans’ past the Neanderthals – in the survival race – and the resulting ‘civilization’.
\nin other words – shamans, pictograms, codes – the mother-lode of a planetary shake-down !!
\npattern. knowledge . . .
\nand warfare and territory expansion & early sea exploration – – the VIKINGS sowed the seeds.
\nyeah, this show – pretty much says – it all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

not to mention, SHAMANS !! FILE UNDER: WONDER WHAT MATTHEW DAY JACKSON, THINKS BOUT THIS. last week to catch: DENNIS McNETT’S FLAT-OUT, ALL-OUT, NO-STOPS – ART WORLD TAKE-DOWN !! DENNIS McNETT – ‘REAPING WAVES AND VITAL VESSELS: THE PASSING OF THE WOLFBATS’ up through SAT JAN 22, 2011 JOSHUA LINER GALLERY – 548 W.28th ST […]<\/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\/3258"}],"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=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}