Art as Authority

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Michael Arata lives and works in Los Angeles.
This image was taken in the gallery in Brussels.

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Isabel Almeida lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

One piece in a series of hand-blown glass works by Isabel that she then mirrored on the inside of the bulb like form with a liquid solution that coated the glass and made it reflective. She then adhered the form onto a flat 12" square mirror and hung the whole piece on the wall about waist high. She would alternate the cast pieces with "blank" flat mirrors that ran the whole circumference of the gallery walls. The resulting effect was nothing less than spectacular.

More images can be viewed here.

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"Les petits caprices" - Hervé Crespel

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"Carmen is in Paradise" (my Mom, Carmen, had passed away several months before)

The gallery in Brussels was located in a predominately residential neighborhood and located at the corner of a "rond-point" or roundabout, basically a rather busy intersection where many folks would take the tram or bus to go downtown. I'm not quite sure how it got started, I believe my friend and writer Paul Simonetti, suggested one day that we start writing phrases on the window of the gallery that faced and ran parallel with the tram tracks. We quickly realized that we literally had a captive audience, since the tram almost always slowed down when navigating the roundabout. Here are just a few excerpts from a month long - we changed the slogans daily, installation of basic communication.

"Another fuschia that has disappeared" (I had a terrible time keeping plants of any kind planted before they grew legs - it didn't help)

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photo: Christine Fricaud

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James Renier - installation detail, printed image on vinyl banner, 6ft. x 18ft., Abel Joseph Gallery - Brussels

Full piece here.

James wanted to do a site specific piece that was literally specific to the site/gallery through its duplication or copy/rendition, an accurate topology thereof installed directly on top of the "original." James subsequently took photos of the gallery's interior in a full 360 panoramic view. He then pieced the photos into one long photo montage starting and ending from the entrance to the gallery. This image was then transfered to a sheet of vinyl canvas, in a slightly smaller scale to the actual support (the gallery wall) that it was fastened to. To further heighten this "trompe l'oeil" effect, James hung four of his original paintings directly onto the vinyl wall, mimicking an actual installation/exhibition of his work, had he had the entire gallery to work with instead of just one wall. He purposely printed the image of the gallery in B&W to enhance the contrast between his originals in color and the more subtler (bland) interior of the gallery space. The light bulbs you see in the image are the actual light bulbs that were suspended from the gallery's ceiling. It was a fascinating and intriguing work to behold.

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Oceanside, CA - 12:18 pm

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Each step I take over moss covered rocks, oozing stagnant muddy waters and prickly scrub brush brings me closer to these mammoths, carrying the weight of humanity like some forgotten Atlas, standing broad shouldered in a successive line, forgotten monuments to the taming of the West, an industrial era and revolutionary building materials.

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Photo: Christine Fricaud

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