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2/11/2010

Total recall

MetroTech Center Commons - Brookyn, New York

Public Art Fund is pleased to announce TOTAL RECALL, a group exhibition in MetroTech Center Commons featuring five new large-scale sculptures, on view November 3, 2010 – September 16, 2011. The show, which includes commissions by New York-based artists Martin Basher, Zipora Fried, Sam Moyer, Matt Sheridan Smith, and Kevin Zucker, frames each artist’s work in relation to the idea of memory and its ephemeral nature. The exhibition’s title, TOTAL RECALL, is borrowed from Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 film, in which the protagonist discovers secretly implanted personal memories that form his reality; like the movie, the works in the exhibition are a compendium of what’s come before both in terms of the artists’ own memories and experiences and their artistic predecessors.

“All of the works in TOTAL RECALL are vastly different in form, material, construction, and fabrication. The exhibition threads them together with the concepts of memory and nostalgia, as well as connotations associated with familiar objects, places, and ideas,” said Nicholas Baume, Public Art Fund Director and Chief Curator. The works in TOTAL RECALL are united through their power to create a new experience for viewers outside of the everyday. Fantastic in material presence, these sculptures both absorb and reflect ideas of the past, appropriating consumer detritus, found imagery and objects, memories from childhood, and nostalgia for earlier times. “More than anything, the exhibition has allowed these five artists to mine their imaginations to create outdoor public works that are strange, multilayered, and futuristic,” said Jesse Hamerman, Public Art Fund Assistant Curator and Project Manager who organized the exhibition. “They all have an element of the transformative – whether in their construction and the manipulation of materials or in the actual viewing experience.”

Each artist in TOTAL RECALL toys with projected meanings, utilizing recognizable existing symbols to create something new. Martin Basher’s three large-scale mirrored vitrines will appear slightly translucent and reflective by day but will reveal their contents at night. Lit from within and stocked with both high and low-end consumer products, the cubes begin to mimic retail spaces where strange pairings hypothesize a utopic future satisfied by consumer desires. Zipora Fried creates a surrealist domestic sculpture in which a once cozy leather armchair is fractured by a maelstrom of baseball bats cascading from its no longer functional seat; an object that commonly conjures feelings of nostalgia for a welcoming living room is brought jarringly into this new context of a public park. Sam Moyer’s sculpture covers more than 50 tree trunks in the center of the Commons, creating the illusion of a forest of birch trees, with their easily recognizable silvery bark. Upon closer inspection, these images reveal themselves to be aluminum planks silk-screened with an image of the North Sea thus transplanting nature from sea to land and allowing numerous realities to co-exist harmoniously. Matt Sheridan Smith plays with the idea of controllable futures, creating large inflatable sculptures to represent commodity futures like wool, coffee, wheat, and canola oil. Filled with air, these forms act as monuments to predictive possibilities–playful civic monuments to futures potential. Kevin Zucker creates a large monochromatic sculpture, an assemblage of various shapes and objects including Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column, a carousel horse, and classical human bust among other forms. Seemingly unrelated, the objects are actually search results for models containing the term “sculpture” in the free 3D application Google SketchUp. By borrowing from this imaginary realm of models and drawing the multitude of forms together into a tactile object, Zucker creates a work that straddles the line between actual and fantasy; real and ideal.

Artists: Martin Basher, Zipora Fried, Sam Moyer, Matt Sheridan Smith, Kevin Zucker

Media Contact: Kellie Honeycutt - phone 212.223.7810
khoneycutt@publicartfund.org

Opening november 3rd

MetroTech Center Commons - Brookyn
Between Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle Avenue - NY
Subways: A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, exit at Myrtle Promenade; R to Lawrence Street; Q to Dekalb Avenue.
Viewing hours are dawn to dusk daily

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