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21/3/2003

Ricardo Ribenboim

Martinez Gallery, New York

TRANSPARENCIES

BROOKLYN - Martinez Gallery is proud to present the work of Brazilian artist Ricardo Ribenboim, running through April. Through his sculptures, installations, curations and investigations, the Sao Paulo native goes a step further than in his previous projects, bringing the viewer, willingly or no, into his world of formal fragmentation, upon which is built his creative, social and aesthetic critique.

'Transparencies' arrays large new works in a kind of visual discourse that, above all else, attempts to seize an unbreakable grip on its audience. Ribenboim, who through the years has worked in diverse media , incorporating manifold layers of design and cultural critique, reveals in his new work a strategy integrating the viewer firmly in the work. In doing so, he breaks the deliberately-placed border, the 4th wall, between the seer and the seen.

Ribenboim's determined fragmentation, a potent brew of hybrid, baroque and formal approaches, is targeted at us. And as such it is a game, playing at intervention, at metamorphosis (of body and meaning), at subverting that which appears transparent, at simulating and at changing roles. 'Transparencies' is the drawn bow taking aim at the spontaneous developments we observe in technologies - traditional, modern, hard and soft, the animate and that which only appears to be so. The work is capable of evoking a wide range of responses and even more questions - starting at opacity and ending in concealment.

The unavoidable social aspect of Ribenboim's work - doubtless inherited from the extraordinary Brazilian body tradition - fundamentally and essentially informs the artist's vision, going so far as to change the very foundation of what the context proposes. But at the same time that foundation directs that very context itself be surpassed. It transports the work and all involved beyond the transparent and, of course, dismountable wall, into a frame where the felicitous inhabitants of New York will be able to partially take the work home with them, exploding from them continually, like spores, over time.

'Transparencies' will be on display through April. For more information or press queries, please call 718.706.0606

Inthe image: Virus, attracted and repelled, 2000.

After Party: Bobbito AKA DJ Cucumberslice & Rich Medina

opening: mar 22 2003, 8 PM
after party: 10 PM -

Martinez Gallery
37 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
t 718 706 0606

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