{"id":39155,"date":"2019-02-09T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=39155"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:36:44","slug":"luke-todd-fourteen-gears-pix-from-the-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2019\/02\/09\/luke-todd-fourteen-gears-pix-from-the-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"~LUKE TODD . . ‘FOURTEEN GEARS’ \/ PIX FROM THE OPENING"},"content":{"rendered":"

the quiet . . SPIN.<\/p>\n

LUKE TODD – ‘FOURTEEN GEARS’
\nOPENED . . FRI JAN 25, 2019
\nGALERIE MICHAEL BARGO<\/a>, CHINATOWN<\/p>\n

PIX – FROM THE OPENING:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nLUKE TODD, at the opening.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nindustrial, yet graceful.
\nset in a specific motion, opaque in color, and yet: a void \/ a mind-set.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe surfaces, their metallic nature . . violated the white walls.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe struggle between my camera, and the flat sculptures – was more ‘kinetic’, than the actual gear movement.
\nthe interlocking, interloping teeth, of the almost random-shaped . . circles \/ ovals . . moved very very slowly,
\nas if grace were more important, than raw speed ?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nit prob had a lot to do with the complexity of the shapes, and it might have been more effective visually, to have seen the shapes move . . more dynamically, more graphically, but then ?
\nwould we be thinking – about them, so much ? <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nprob your best bet, for realizing the ‘wheels’ . . ‘turn’, and eat, or meet and greet . . each other,
\nwould be the wired, mechanical works in the back.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthat was an interesting ‘angle’, to entertain . . at an art show.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nnot all the ‘mechanical works’, were wall pieces . .
\nsome were . . free-standing, yet still quite – wired.
\ntheir contrast to reality, was heightened by the Chinatown window scene.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nand they weren’t all black – some were red.
\nbut again, a perfect pitch – for a mechanical piece.<\/p>\n

very much in contrast, to the world – we have to move through.
\n“your taxes were lowered \/ but your refund is less, much less.” \/ wtf
\nnothing is black & white.
\nnothing is what it seems \/ or what we are told. nobody really believes anything, they are told.
\nit’s all . . smoke & mirrors.
\nit’s all . . spin.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthere was something about that barely moving, quiet ‘spin’ – that was so <\/strong>pervasive.
\n& in a way, in which a more aggressive, or obvious ‘gear’ spin – would not \/ have not been.
\na kind of . . spiritual ‘temperature’. <\/p>\n

and yet, also a . . VALENTINE.<\/p>\n

red ‘hearts’, running along the wall.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\npeople got real social, at the opening.
\nthe quiet accomplishment of the show \/ pulsed in a warm way – strange, considering it was so mechanical ?!!
\nit’s hard to condense the beauty of this show, or define . . it’s effectiveness.
\nquiet . . interlocking ?<\/p>\n

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

the quiet . . SPIN. LUKE TODD – ‘FOURTEEN GEARS’ OPENED . . FRI JAN 25, 2019 GALERIE MICHAEL BARGO, CHINATOWN PIX – FROM THE OPENING: LUKE TODD, at the opening. industrial, yet graceful. set in a specific motion, opaque in color, and yet: a void \/ a mind-set. the surfaces, their metallic nature . […]<\/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\/39155"}],"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=39155"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39181,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39155\/revisions\/39181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}