{"id":5906,"date":"2011-06-09T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:45:48","slug":"wiggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/06\/09\/wiggs\/","title":{"rendered":"~WIGGS . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

OR: LOVE THE ONE YER WITH – PART 1<\/p>\n

The theme of this year’s 54th VENICE BIENNALE is: ‘ILLUMINATIONS’.
\n. . . meant to “evoke the notion of artists as a source of enlightenment” !!<\/p>\n

but it’s truly – ALLADIN’S LAMP – translation: illumination plus MAGIC – all the way . . .
\nhere, in the gritty streets of NYC !!<\/p>\n

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\nURS FISCHER WAX CANDLE\/VENICE BIENNALE 2011 – PHOTO COURTESY\/MADE IN SLANT<\/a><\/p>\n

ok, so you can’t be in VENICE – catching the giant URS FISCHER wax candles self-destruct !!
\n. . . read more: MADE IN SLANT <\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIRAQI ARTISTS \/ AHMED ALSOUDANI (LEFT) POSES FOR ADEL ABIDIN\/PHOTO BY JESSICA CRAIG-MARTIN for THE NEW YORK TIMES <\/a><\/p>\n

and for sure you ain’t in a private water taxi “piled in, a tangle of gowns and glitter” speeding “across choppy waterways clogged with other party commuter craft” motoring towards some fabulous afterparty in honor of the VENICE ART BIENNALE 2011 – actually this one was thrown by mega collector FRANCOIS PINAULT at the “Cini Foundation, an opulent former Benedictine monastery” . . . where “young aristos flitted about the gardens in Balenciaga and Lanvin” . . .
\n(what did I tell you about jazz era slouchy deluxe !! – ala MARION COTILLARD in MIDNIGHT IN PARIS)
\n. . . read more: : The Art World’s New Darlings\/NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nyo, but if you be – in gritty hot New York City, you might have caught WIGGS, a young art collector – based in Harlem – at the corner of 8th Ave and 33rd St – with his newest purchase !!<\/p>\n

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\na painting by his friend, SAMUEL MARK, it is a narrow, intense, portrait of a spray paint can – on canvas, and it says: GIVE MORE TO WHAT YOU WANT TO BECOME . . .
\nit’s as luminous as a lit candle, no ? and enlightenment – no shyte.<\/p>\n

it’s always very fun, not to mention amazing – to see just how right on the streets of crazy mad New York be . . . on the issues of the day.
\nand usually doing it – better. make tha : BETTER, all in caps, dude.<\/p>\n

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\nit is signed and dated by the artist SAMUEL MARK, and dedicated to WIGGS on the back.<\/p>\n

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\nSAMUEL MARK – 2011.<\/p>\n

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\nWIGGS had just picked up a ‘gun’ piece on collaged paper he had recently bought from ALFREDO MARTINEZ, and had just g had custom framed.<\/p>\n

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\nGUN PIECE BY ALFREDO MARTINEZ. it is bigger than it looks in the photos – approx 2 ft. x 3 ft.<\/p>\n

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\nAlfredo based the built-up collaged paper that the drawing is done on – on the back side of a map !!
\nthe frame was designed with a ‘window’ of plexi on the reverse to show the map.<\/p>\n

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\ndetail, reverse. the map.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH – UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OR: LOVE THE ONE YER WITH – PART 1 The theme of this year’s 54th VENICE BIENNALE is: ‘ILLUMINATIONS’. . . . meant to “evoke the notion of artists as a source of enlightenment” !! but it’s truly – ALLADIN’S LAMP – translation: illumination plus MAGIC – all the way . . . here, in […]<\/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\/5906"}],"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=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}