{"id":35045,"date":"2017-12-05T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T12:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=35045"},"modified":"2017-12-21T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:58:39","slug":"luke-todd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2017\/12\/05\/luke-todd\/","title":{"rendered":"~LUKE TODD & BOBBY VITERI . . ‘MEDITATIONS’ \/ PRAY 4 THIS GALLERY, CHINATOWN POP-UP, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

YOUR PLANET – IS NEXT !!<\/p>\n

& COMING TO . . MIAMI – TOMORROW !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PROB . . <\/strong>the best hardcore \/ indie pop-up show of the season.<\/p>\n

‘MEDIATATIONS: A STUDY on INNER PEACE’ . . LUKE TODD & BOBBY VITERI
\nshook up – a lot of artistic pre-conceptions !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

taking place over just one recent weekend,<\/strong> deep in the bowels of old school Chinatown, a creaky elevator ride up to a gritty loft,
\nthat turns out to be . . PETER SUTHERLAND’S <\/strong>raw & working studio \/ loft . . !!
\nthe rumble of rock & roll gritty industrial, meets far-reaching \/ thought-out visionary !!
\nand . . nails it. cold, but way . . imaginary.
\ncold hard steel, ‘bio-fluids’ squirming through narrow plastic tubing, the plaintive criss-cross of wood ‘tire’ tracks, kinetic white plaster, wireless programming, and drop dead silent steel (and concrete) monoliths, spoke eloquently, making the small space feel like . . an eternity. no beginning. no end.
\nand, not<\/strong> one expressive slick of pigment . . no paint, in sight !!
\nnary a brushstroke.<\/p>\n

think on that . . for a moment.<\/p>\n

esp coming on the heels of that recent, mad crazy, whack as crack, thick with paint \/ thin with reality, hyper expressive, symbolist . . ANDY CAHILL, ‘HOME’ exhibit of paintings,
\nat SAFE GALLERY in Brooklyn.<\/strong> !!<\/p>\n

it all made for a great head-on rush to contradiction<\/em> !!
\na great ballastic, ahead-of-the-curve ending, to a super dynamic year . .
\nesp for those who like to walk – on the freshly bleeding cutting edge !!
\nfar, far from . . the ever maddening, main-stream art venues. <\/p>\n

and, they are showing in MIAMI – this week, opening tomorrow WED DEC 6, 2017 <\/strong>
\nin a 5 artist group show, which also includes PETER SUTHERLAND . . !!<\/strong>
\nBARBARA FEINMAN PRESENTS: ‘AURA & AUTHORITY’ – OPENING WED DEC 6, 2017 \/ 6-9 PM \/ 7611 NW 7TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33150 <\/strong>
\nBE THERE.<\/p>\n

BUT, BACK TO THE . . . ‘FUTURE’ !!<\/p>\n

OPENING NIGHT PIX – FRI NOV 17, 2017 . . . !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

BARBARA FEINMAN PRESENTS: ‘Meditations: A Study in Inner Peace’
\nLUKE TODD & BOBBY VITERI
\nPRAY 4 THIS GALLERY – 83 CANAL ST, BUZZER 200, CHINATOWN, NYC
\nOPENING FRI NOV 17 \/ OPEN SAT & SUN \/ NOV 18 & 19, 2017. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPETER SUTHERLAND, LUKE TODD & BOBBY VITERI – at the ‘MEDITATIONS’, P4TG \/ PRAY 4 THIS GALLERY,CHINATOWN, NYC opening.
\nthat’s a very much ‘there\/not there’ all-steel ‘painting’ by BOBBY VITERI – on the wall.<\/p>\n

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\nBOBBY VITERI, ‘Inner’, 2017.
\ncopper electroplate on etched steel panel. 48.5 x 40 in.
\nin a word: Rothko . . for the new age. <\/p>\n

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\nBOBBY VITERI, ‘Outer’, 2017.
\ncopper electrolate on etched steel panel. 48.5 x 40 in.
\nin a word: brooding Basquiat, without the imagery.
\ncatch me – if you . . can !!<\/p>\n

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\nBOBBY VITERI, the King of YIN YANG.
\nmeditate on . . that, my stunned gallery-goer !!
\nYAYOI KUSAMA, not !!
\nbut if, you need a way in . . look for the shifting steel ‘hues’, reach inside \/ to address the steel patina, and vibe with the surroundings. look inward \/ look outward.
\nline the piece up \/ with the venue’s ‘reality’ . . to begin: ‘navigation’ !!
\nno beginning. no end. entropy.<\/p>\n

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\nit was easy to add-on . . the ‘layers’ !!
\nat the P4TG opening.
\nsomething about . . hand-painted denim & the contrast of hand-worked raw steel – that really plays well together.
\nlotus eaters . . unite !!<\/p>\n

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\n‘YOUR PLANET – IS NEXT’ . . !!<\/p>\n

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\nspeaking of which . . .
\nLUKE TODD, ‘Blood Rug’, 2017.
\nsilicone tubing, dye, peristaltic pump, 22.5 x 22.5 in.<\/p>\n

meditation. no beginning. no end.<\/p>\n

the moment<\/strong> I saw this ‘kinetic floor sculpture’ – with a dull blood-like fluid coursing in slow motion ‘spurts’ through it’s vinyl tube \/ ancient Celtic knot singularity \/ intertwined plasticity, I swear !!
\nthe first thing . .
\nthat came to me mind was: wow, they’ve<\/strong> got futuristic ‘deep’ inter-galactic space travel – all wrong !!
\npeople aren’t going to be frozen asleep to endure the millennia of deep space travel, they re going to have their DNA re-ducted !! to a ‘BIO-FLUID’ running in ‘Celtic knots’ . . stacked up in huge piles, to be re-constituted at the long journey’s end.
\nby the AI command. <\/p>\n

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\ndetail, LUKE TODD.
\n’23 & ME’ . . !!
\nthe book of code \/ the cycle of genes. the Bio fluid.
\nmaybe they will be thrown at random planets, the way we throw newspapers . . at porch steps.<\/p>\n

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\nthis piece by LUKE TODD, was a little more complicated . .
\nand harder to contemplate. to process. well, it did <\/strong>have a wireless digital component !!
\nand it was esp impossible to capture . . with a still image.<\/p>\n

LUKE TODD, ‘Untitled (Rose Extruder V.2.0)’, 2017.
\ntile, grout, plexiglass, plywood, 12v motors.
\nassembled over a sink, it was a plaster ‘grid’ upon which roses . . bloomed. <\/p>\n

meditation: no beginning. no end. <\/p>\n

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\nit was malleable. changeable. but still, a matrix.
\nit was . . fascinating, (early) JEFF KOONS, move over.<\/p>\n

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\nit held particular interest, in the NYC moment, vis-a-vie the current . . ‘WHITE PLASTER’<\/strong> moment.
\nthat is, to my way of thinking:
\n1) the stable, but awesome giant Domino Sugar ‘Nanny’ \/ Sphinx . . by KARA WALKER
\n2) the huge, but instable, pliable Katy Perry ‘head’ . . by URS FISCHER
\nand … now
\n3) on a smaller scale, but !! Programmed !! the Rose Extruder on a Matrix over a sink, lol . . by LUKE TODD !!<\/p>\n

& just . . splitting hairs:
\n1) was that absolute super awesome Kara Walker sculpture, really made of sugar, does it dissolve over time ?
\nbecause I hope not. because I would love for it to prevail, while the rest of our civilization turns to dust.
\nexcept for the real Sphinx and ALL <\/strong>the pyramids they are finding everywhere.
\n2) so much for ‘democracy’<\/em> – in art. art takes skills.
\nluckily Urs can go back in there, and restore his beauty to its pristine elegance, after the daily pawing it gets. but nice ‘interactive’ experiment.
\n3) now, Luke Todd’s ‘Rose Extruder’. this is also a ‘white plaster’ !! but a . . matrix. a grid. not a portrait.
\nupon which, with proddings from a remote device, roses . . bloom.
\nit’s interactive, but it’s controlled. it’s a finite cycle, but an open one.
\nit is destroy by handheld ‘wiper’ \/ birth by programmed, though also handheld (AI!!) device.
\nit seems to hold a great lesson.<\/p>\n

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\nit could be . . universal ?
\nbirth \/ death. you know what the Buddha says \/ don’t attach to the red dust.
\nmediate on the infinite . . bloom of life. perfection. & then gone with the whim of a common sink & a glass ‘wiper’. <\/p>\n

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\nlife vs death.
\nconstruction vs destruction.
\nwood vs steel. meditations on inner peace.
\nsomehow they drove me – into the . . future.
\nLUKE TODD ‘Pine Grid’ on the left, BOBBY VITERI ‘Steel Panel, on the right.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, LUKE TODD, ‘Grid (pine)’, 2017.
\nsolid pine. 23.5 x 7.5 in.<\/p>\n

Luke told me his work is about . . “kinetic sculpture”.
\nthen where do you do with piece . . ‘captured’ Kinetic ??
\nas it seems to be a tire pattern ? maybe.<\/p>\n

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\nwell anyway, it was this wooden piece, that made me realize: they wasn’t, nary a single brushstroke in the show, and, the only<\/strong> pigment might be . . the wood varnish, the steel patina, or the brownish-red dye in the Celtic blood !!<\/p>\n

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\nBOBBY VITERI, ‘American Steel’, 2017.
\nelectroplate silver negative on domestic steel in artist’s frame. 13 x 9.5 in.
\nculture wars.<\/p>\n

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\nBOBBY VITERI . . ‘American Steel’.<\/p>\n

though curiously,
\nthere was just this one play on ‘imagery’ \/ where the silver negative area, appears as if . . to be ink, or pigment.
\nbut it seemed an anomaly. which was of interest in & of itself.
\na ‘postcard’ . . home.
\na nod to the history of art, illustration. the ‘conflict’ eternal to mankind’s nature, though here it’s very lighthearted \/ meditate on that.
\ny’all know, if it was just one of us left standing, our right side would fight . . the left.
\nto the death. <\/p>\n

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\nBOBBY VITERI, ‘Cinderblock’, 2017.
\ncinderblock, epoxy putty, enamel. 16 x 8 x 5.5 in.
\nwhy do I hear the iconic music of a sci fi thriller, when I gaze upon this ?
\nthe common enough . . cinderblock – as ‘crystal’ \/ as: mystery.
\nthe dawn of a new age.
\nthe runaway . . rebel AI \/ running like a vein, or a vine . . ?
\nthrough the concrete and simple enough building . . ‘block’.
\nprogrammed, or is that . . beyond<\/em> programmed ?
\nBeware the monolith.
\nStanley Ku-brick.<\/p>\n

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\nthe entrance to P4TG \/ PRAY 4 THIS GALLERY is gritty enough.
\nbut, knock, knock . . . . knock.
\nis that you, Stanley ?<\/p>\n

Stanley Kubrick \/ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968)<\/p>\n

& digging: that classic fighting red-clawed crustacean, too. so odd. it comes across, so well.
\nmaybe its that scruffy, ‘stamped’ quality. maybe it is a real . . stencil ?
\nmaybe it’s a spontaneous brushwork ink drawing ?
\nso B-I-O, for a cutting edge joint, lol. a kind of short-hand punk logo \/ it seems so nonchalant, too.
\nrandom, not overly considered. must be the Chinatown ambiance.
\nbut, then again. just eating one of those things, sends fighter signals through your own<\/strong> system.<\/p>\n

enter at your risk \/ interloper thoughts might affect you !!<\/p>\n

somehow it signals: hardcore science, art & life – at work.<\/p>\n

funny how an image can come across so differently, in different hands.
\nthe spectrum.
\nhardcore vs mainstream.
\nelectric vs mundane.
\nRed Lobster vs Pray 4 This \/ it’s an infinite world. yin yang.<\/p>\n

same . . with the ‘rose’ in the plaster matrix, or the dull glow of a worn patina in cold etched steel.
\nsome people just knock it out of the ballpark.
\na rose is a rose is a . . rose.<\/p>\n

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

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