{"id":845,"date":"2009-04-02T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2009\/04\/02\/we-live-in-publicalfredo-martinez\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:02:31","slug":"we-live-in-publicalfredo-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2009\/04\/02\/we-live-in-publicalfredo-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"~WE LIVE IN PUBLIC\/ALFREDO MARTINEZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . if JOSH was the man &#8211; ALFREDO MARTINEZ was the candy man &#8211; at QUIET. His shooting gallery was the  juice &#8211; the non-stop creative engine &#8211; of the party.  Situated next to the Interrogation Room &#8211; its the shots from these assault rifles that punctuate the scenes of the &#8220;interrogations&#8221; in the movie.<br \/>\nJosh and Alfredo had acquired proper legal &#8220;film set production&#8221; licenses to run the shooting gallery, and all and any visitors to QUIET &#8211; were free to shoot them &#8211; under strict supervision.  They were real guns, and they were big ones.<br \/>\nP.S. I believe it was ALFREDO &#8211; who brought PS1 FOUNDER &#8211; ALANNA HEISS  &#8211; to QUIET.  He had been showing some big Robot\/Gun installations there. <\/p>\n<p>ALFREDO MARTINEZ is currently in CHINA &#8211; as some kind of foreign artist-in-residence &#8211; despite his serving time &#8211; 2 years in the federal slammer &#8211; for forging Basquiats, well that&#8217;s another story &#8211; back to China &#8211; I guess they like &#8217;em &#8211; hard core !!<\/p>\n<p>see:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/10\/02\/afredo-martinezvice\/\"> ALFREDO MARTINEZ\/2008 interview on VICE !!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>in anticipation of some new publicity &#8211; ALFREDO recently sent us some images of his new &#8216;gun&#8217; work from BEIJING !!<br \/>\nALL PHOTOS COURTESY: ALFREDO MARTINEZ<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfredo___1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"321\" alt=\"Alfredo # 1\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfredo___2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\" alt=\"alfredo # 2\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfredo___3.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" alt=\"Alfredo # 3\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfredo___4.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" alt=\"Alfredo # 4\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfredo___5.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"321\" alt=\"Alfredo # 5\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Alfredo___6.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" alt=\"alfredo # 6\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . if JOSH was the man &#8211; ALFREDO MARTINEZ was the candy man &#8211; at QUIET. His shooting gallery was the juice &#8211; the non-stop creative engine &#8211; of the party. Situated next to the Interrogation Room &#8211; its the shots from these assault rifles that punctuate the scenes of the &#8220;interrogations&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/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\/845"}],"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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}