{"id":41541,"date":"2020-02-06T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=41541"},"modified":"2020-02-06T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T22:47:36","slug":"daniel-giordano-friends-more-pix-from-the-opening-cellophane-m-david-co-with-shout-out-to-heidi-howard-liz-phillips-the-queens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2020\/02\/06\/daniel-giordano-friends-more-pix-from-the-opening-cellophane-m-david-co-with-shout-out-to-heidi-howard-liz-phillips-the-queens-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"~DANIEL GIORDANO & friends \/ more pix from the opening . . ‘CELLOPHANE’ \/ M. DAVID & CO. \/ with shout-out to: NICHOLAS STEINDORF \/ HEIDI HOWARD & LIZ PHILLIPS \/ THE QUEENS MUSEUM"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘CELLOPHANE’ . . . has been extended thru SUN FEB 9, 2020
\nsee: M. DAVID & CO.<\/a><\/p>\n

ALLIGATOR, ALLIGATOR . . on the wall,
\nwho is the fairest of them . . ALL ?<\/p>\n

MORE PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING – JAN 17, 2020<\/p>\n

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\nDANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Mon Calamari III’, 2016-2019<\/p>\n

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\ndetail . . .
\nyes, that’s an alligator paw.
\nwell, you can’t<\/strong> be squeamish when you come to face-to-face with Daniel Giordano, or . . his work.
\nit’s not that he challenges you, it’s that he is<\/strong> challenging you !!
\nanimal parts, moldy food, urinal cakes. chain-saw wood carving, found metal, gooey melted plastics.
\ndeep-fried batter, stainless steel. tennis balls. sparklers. dust.
\nface masks. pipe dreams. clementines. ceramics. resin. things . . both opaque, and shiny. skittery, and dense.
\nrevolting, phosphorescent, and probably, no longer edible.
\nwhat’s acceptable, what isn’t \/ wasn’t, could be \/ can be.
\ntranscending metaphor and meanings, of which plenty of each abound . .
\nthe poetry, the dance, the grin . . the sheer force to be \/
\nthe creative impulse to ‘will’ into being, the crazy wild, even emotional . . imagination that runs through it all,
\nis like a river, with the heart of a rock.
\nthese pieces don’t<\/strong> sit still, in any sense of the word \/ even this one,
\nthough it might sit stationary on a block,
\nit’s base . . is a bowl.
\na shiny reflective . . bowl. a big round half-shell of a bowl. a metal bowl cradling what amount to a ‘cultural’ . . explosion.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail . . .
\nthis is no longer the era of minimalism, or even brute. it’s not just arte povera, or even . . distressed.
\nand it’s certainly . . not: DIY. it might embrace craft, skills, and a subset of conceptional-ism . . .
\nbut it is always more \/ and it’s just like breathing, to him.
\nit reminds me most of . . earth art.
\nI mean, just that ‘will’ \/ to PUT . . FORWARD \/ a ‘stop-in-your-tracks’ sign \/ held up against the usual suspects,
\nthe usual landscape. the usual landmarks, and the comfort zone . . beacons. <\/p>\n

DANIEL, born into full-blooded Italian ancestor \/ immigrant family genes . . questions the whole status quo of western art history, & comes full circle . . from marble and chiselled realism \/
\nzooms past minimalist & earth art theory, but still holds onto the ‘ego’ creator part, and then re-fired in the newly re-gentrified folk art & craft pathways, comes up: <\/p>\n

born in the Hudson Valley, which in itself was birthed & skilled in the manufacturing ‘arts’ of the long gone Industrial era \/ short-coded here as ‘Vicki’ \/ the family aunt who most recently ran the business \/ as a . . post millennial (!!)
\nwho grew up, I’m betting strange and wild, despite his parents’ greatest efforts, when the area re-gentrified big time & exploded with art, and both artists \/ craftspeople.
\nI don’t think it’s a stretch to say \/ though it may sound a contradiction . . .
\nthat the ‘heroic’ \/ ground-breaking abstract, minimal, and even ‘earth art’ of the nearby DIA Foundation had a lot to do with this upstate native son’s powerful . . but loving, cultural – upheaval.<\/p>\n

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\nnote: the tiny bit of hand-crocheted lace.
\nDaniel told me, he did it himself . . and, it was “f-cking hard”.
\nwelcome to the crafts world, Daniel !!
\nbet you won’t find any hand-crochet in the DIA. probably, not even a quilt.
\nmy, how the cultural winds blow, and . . scatter.
\nwhich is exactly – how it should be.
\nit takes layers & layers of thought, and skill . . to explain the drive of our DNA \/ humanity.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nDANIEL GIORDANO, ‘Mon Calamari III’, 2016-2019.
\nGlazed ceramic, aluminum, alligator, stainless steel bowls, deep-fried batter, tennis balls, gravel, iron ore, sparklers, tennis racket string, dental floss, thread, garment factory dust, epoxy, Tang drink mix, Tiger Balm, medicated itch powder, phosphorescent acrylic, bison.
\n38-1\/2 x 15 x 14-1\/2 in.
\nCollection: Theo Cerigo
\n(NFS)<\/p>\n

note: Calimari translates both as to a squid, a yummy food delicacy*, and squid liquid . . which stains indelibly \/ and is therefore a verbal pathway to . . ink \/ and writing instrument.
\n“The word calamari<\/em> was borrowed into English from 17th-century Italian, where it functioned as the plural of “calamaro” or “calamaio”. The Italian word, in turn, comes from the Medieval Latin noun calamarium, meaning “ink pot”, or “pen case”, and can be ultimately traced back to to Latin calamus, meaming \/\/ “reed pen”.
\n~Merriam-Webster
\n*battered & deep-fried (!!)
\nre: reed \/ ink pen . . those must be the thin, waver-y, once-were ‘sparklers’ . . that poke out from different points on the piece, but esp at the top.
\nre: layers, metaphors, and . . symbolism.
\n \/ in a word: human history.<\/p>\n

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\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF . . gets it. it’s both serious & . . celebratory !!<\/p>\n

btw:
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF . . .
\nwill be participating in a panel discussion on interactive art & artist collaborations \/ titled, ‘Dynamic Collaborations’
\nwith HEIDI HOWARD and LIZ PHILLIPS, NICHOLAS STEINDORF repping his collab with Paris-based VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER<\/a> (Jean-Baptiste LENGLET),
\nand . . GABY COLLINS-FERNANDEZ of PRECOG Magazine<\/a>,
\nnot this Sunday, but next.
\nmark your calendars . . .
\nSUNDAY, FEB 16, 2020 \/ 3 PM . . at THE QUEENS MUSEUM \/ QUEENS, NEW YORK <\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nHEIDI HOWARD & LIZ PHILLIPS, who have an interactive \/ collab exhibit, ‘Relative Fields in a Garden’,
\nat THE QUEENS MUSEUM, will sponsor the panel discussion \/
\nto mark the closing of their show . . Sun Feb 16, 2020 \/ 3 PM
\nsee: ‘Relative Fields in a Garden’ \/ The Queens Museum<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFAMILY !!!
\nin a mind-set \/ full-on \/ creative sense . . kind of way.
\nNICHOLAS STEINDORF meets up with DANIEL GIORDANO, at the opening.
\nbehind them: ‘Colobonema’, 2020 by . . JUDY PFAFF<\/p>\n

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\n2 new wall works by .. JUDY PFAFF<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nfrom a different angle . .
\nJUDY PFAFF, ‘Colobonema’, 2020.
\nMelted plastics, acrylic, wire, bed springs, string lights, steel chair base.
\n28 x 26 x 32 in.
\n($15,000)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nJUDY PFAFF, ‘Moon Jelly’, 2020.
\nMelted plastics, acrylic, expanded foam, roots, and motorized lighting.
\n36 x 0 x 30 in.
\n($15,000)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe show’s curator . . NICOLE CASTYALDO,
\nwho is also Associate Director at the M. David & Co. gallery.
\nbehind her a work by . . LEN BELLINGER.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nLEN BELLINGER, ‘chisholm’, 2013-2015.
\noil on canvas\/wood \/ 56 x 40 x 5 in.
\n(7,800) <\/p>\n

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

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