\nCURATED BY JOHANNES DeYOUNG & FEDERICO SOLMI
\nARTSPACE, NEW HAVEN<\/a> – UP THRU . . . FEB 29, 2020<\/p>\n
see: ‘STRANGE LOOPS’ \/ ARTSPACE, NEW HAVEN<\/a><\/p>\n a strange glow . . . embraces the viewer, a once rigid grid . . . plaid with . . . gentle \/ spatial disobedience.<\/p>\n This show, which speaks to future ‘systems’, both technical & societal \/ somehow, manages in a very wondrous way, what a beautiful title, for a profoundly spatial, and conceptional piece.<\/p>\n “The title of our exhibition, ‘Strange Loops’, takes it’s name from DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER’S seminal text, “As artists working within the trappings<\/strong> of Twenty First Century media culture, we share interest and concern in the social and psychological effects of media culture at large, so the paradigm of the self-referential loop feels like an especially relevant point of departure.” indeed, the curators’ . . mission statement<\/a> gives new meaning to the ‘intertwining’ of many different threads of thought \/ well . . it is<\/strong> a complex world, we live in. Blinn & Lambert’s gently projected meandering plaid . . . ah, the moon. btw:
\nas the doors of perception & romance, tumble & turn – at play.<\/p>\n
\nsoftly billows and folds.<\/p>\n
\nto keep human desire . . still, very much in the ‘loop’.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BLINN-LAMBERT-ARTSPACE.gif\")
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\nBLINN & LAMBERT, ‘Romantic Love’, 2018
\n35mm slide projection on 2 projectors, with custom benches, and plinth
\n23 minute loop
\n144 x 96 in.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Blinn-LAMBERT-ROMANTIC-LOVE-PROJECTION.gif\")
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\n“REALITY isn’t what it used to be.”
\nso begins the curatorial essay.<\/p>\n
\n‘I am a Strange Loop’<\/strong>, a book that explores self-referential systems<\/strong> as paradigms<\/strong> for better understanding human cognition and the emergence of ego.”<\/p>\n
\n~Johannes DeYoung<\/p>\n
\nlong live poetry, and long live science.<\/p>\n
\na nice enough metaphor for Romantic Love, as it is for abstracted reality, is also very much a metaphor for this exhibit’s dreamy, yet quite serious – meandering scientific curatorial essay, which begins with a time\/place marker, the summer of 2019, and the many . . “semi-centennial celebrations of the Apollo 11 moon landing” \/ then proceeds to touch-tag this human, scientific achievement as ripe with justifiably implicit “human desire”, and continues onto . . musing about: “generations of poetic expression projected at the moon”, and yet, somehow also manages to touch base with that other colder<\/strong>, darker<\/strong>, indeed bleaker and very much moody<\/strong> side of the moon: “it’s metaphors for human aspiration, melancholy, and desire <\/strong> remain as relevant today as in the 18th & 19th centuries. Now<\/strong> more than ever we<\/strong> find heightened resonance for lunar poetics, especially when expressed in contrast to the calculated attention<\/strong> economies where desires . . never cease.”
\n~Johannes DeYoung<\/p>\n
\nthe cat and the spoon – played by the light of the moon.
\nupon which, held up like a mirror, the white-face painted Edo geisha, caught her ghostly reflection.<\/p>\n
\ntomorrow Jan 10, 2020 is the Lunar Eclipse Full Moon, the blood moon. so, you know . . .
\nit’s nice<\/em> when hard-minded art essays – collide with reality,
\nand still, something remains mysterious,
\nand vastly, poetic.<\/p>\n
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