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THINGS THAT STAY, THINGS THAT GO JOCKO WEYLAND wrote us a lengthy, but worthy missive on this ‘alternative’ show on the glorious banks of the GOWANUS CANAL !! – the site of a one time on-site\/found\/rove exhibit under the ELK umbrella. anyways, JOCKO writes:<\/p>\n “With Bond Street on one side, the Gowanus Canal on the other, bordered by The lot has had many lives, first as a car salvage business and now as the Directions: F train to Carroll Street Stop, walk east (towards the Gowanus) Presented with the cooperation and support of the Tinneny family and there is an excellent slide show of the exhibit: on the ELK website !!<\/a> looking good – or what !!?? GOWANUS CANAL !!<\/p>\n while you are on the ELK website – look around – it’s a nice little alternative cruise . . . with some real punch. note: JOCKO WEYLAND IS A WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER, and CHRONICLER OF SKATEBOARDING, AMONG OTHER PASTIMES – in AMERICA. when we saw his film – ‘BEIJING SUMMER’ – under the ELK\/FILMS archive<\/a> – there was something about BEIJING, and GOWANUS CANAL – that resonated in our head.
\nDANNY TINNENY’S SELECTIVE SALVAGE
\nDEC 11, 2009 – JAN 3, 2010
\nELK GALLERY<\/a> – 426 PRESIDENT ST. – BROOKLYN – NY
\nHRS: FRI-SAT\/1-7PM<\/p>\n
\ntoo bad we couldn’t make the opening – Friday, Dec 11 – supposedly they had bonfires going in 55 gallon oil drums .. and beer. but it was also the biggest rainstorm of the year. so go figure.<\/p>\n
\nCarroll to the south and the cobblestones of President Street to the north,
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a repository of gritty and occasionally sublime readymade
\nbeauty. \u00c2\u00a0Almost everything there has a functional purpose, though much has
\nstayed past its prime thanks to the preservationist instincts of Danny
\nTinneny, the lot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owner, \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153arranger\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and undisputed king. All these objects
\nhelp give the lot its unique character and often transcend their utilitarian
\norigins to enter the realm of the purely sculptural, combining undeniable
\nformal qualities and socio-historical resonance. Posing questions as to what
\nis art and what is not without essaying any dogmatic answers, the lot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s
\ncontents blur that supposed boundary with Duchampian aplomb. An accumulation
\nof weathered, battered, and engrossing remnants of the Gowanus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 industrial
\npast and its more recent multi-use incarnation, the aesthetically rich
\nenvironment has resulted from both chance and judicious reclamation. Whether
\nit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a peacefully decaying 1958 Oldsmobile 88, various bollards, a backhoe,
\nforklifts, a Grove crane, rusted dumpsters, bales of wire, oil drums,
\nnumerous ladders, stacks of wood, sandbags, tires, and shipping containers,
\nthey all are part of a not entirely accidental cement sculpture garden. \u00c2\u00a0Set
\noff by the big skies above the canal, ringed by an aluminum barbed-wire
\ntopped fence, the weedy domain with its semi-feral cats hunting amongst the
\ndetritus is evidence of a keen sensitivity to the appeal of what many
\nconsider junk. <\/p>\n
\nhome to the office of a moving company, a woodshop, parking for movie
\nstylist RVs, and many other activities, including Macro-sea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s summer 2009
\ndumpster pool project, for which Tinneny was both enlightened landlord and
\ncrucial participant. Now more changes are afoot, and before that
\ntransformation occurs there is an opportunity to take stock of these sundry
\ninanimate things and see them in a new light. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things that Stay, Things that
\nGo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d contextualizes these gems that were saved on purpose (and some that
\nstayed just because) in a garage-turned-gallery and its courtyard. An homage
\nto the past and present, the inspired ad-hoc arrangement Tinneny has brought
\nto his workaday surroundings will be reconfigured into an installation
\nreplete with aesthetic and historical allusions and minimalist charm. Tools
\nand useful implements\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 impact on the sculpture of the last 100 years can be
\npondered, as can the graphic material that was saved for decorative
\npurposes, seen through the prism of one man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unselfconsciously artful
\nattitude toward debris. A collective wish to fully appreciate the lot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s
\nmagical diversity is at work in this exhibition, from the fire call box to a
\nchest-high safe, the vintage matador prints, a tarp-covered AMC Javelin, a
\ntoolbox full of 1940s records and \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Watchman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mannequin, along with the
\nall the other selectively salvaged treasures. In this display machines,
\npractical devices and pictorial ephemera generate a nuanced tonal
\nconversation about volume, shape, and feel, as well as a chance to celebrate
\nTinneny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discriminating eye for the beauty inherent in functionally.<\/p>\n
\non Carroll Street, left on Hoyt, then right on President. Go to the end of
\nthe street through the gate into the lot and walk about seventy-five feet
\nuntil \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things that Stay, Things that Go\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is seen to the right.<\/p>\n
\nMacro-Sea.”<\/p>\n
\nALL PHOTOS BY ROB ERICKSON !!
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\ninset photo of DANNY TINNENY – by JONATHAN KROLL.<\/p>\n
\nFOR SURE, don’t miss the ELK sounds: here !!<\/a>
\non the top right, under ONE ELK SOUND; ANOTHER ELK SOUND.
\nand the zines and the films and the books !!<\/a> <\/p>\n
\nof course – ALFREDO MARTINEZ – !! – former GOWANUS CANAL celebrity resident and current CHINA ARTIST-in-RESIDENCE !!
\nJocko Weyland wrote that funny piece on ALFREDO for VICE !!
\nsee: JOCKO WEYLAND on ALFREDO MARTINEZ !! in CHINA !!<\/a>
\nfor more on JOCKO WEYLAND, check out: RAW CHINA – PHOTOS BY JOCKO WEYLAND !!<\/a>
\nand if you have 10 more mins, check out: JOCK WEYLAND on OPEN CITY – THE ELK & THE SKATEBOARDER !!<\/a><\/p>\n
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