Two exhibitions
dal 17/1/2003 al 1/3/2003
Segnalato da
17/1/2003
Two exhibitions
London Street Project, Los Angeles
Reni Lagorio, Death Destroyer. Ed Johnson, Indecision Time. Reni Lagorio will present a new installation. The exhibit by Ed Johnson takes the 19th anniversary of Husker Dü's Zen Arcade as its jumping-off point.
RENI LAGORIO
DEATH DESTROYER
During the week preceding Ed Johnson's exhibition, California artist RENI
LAGORIO will present a new installation at London Street Projects (from
January 18th through the 25th). An OPENING reception will take place on
Saturday, January 18th, beginning at 8 p.m.
The work, titled "Death Destroyer," is based on graphics that accompanied
the release of the Pentagon's current operational blueprint in May 2000.
Lagorio's installation is a speculative response to a culture of blinkered
militarism that verges on the Strangelovian.
"The piece is an attempt to take something vast and fairly unfathomable
and reduce it to the more manageable dimensions of a physical object,"
says Lagorio. "Basically it's an effigy but I also like to pretend that
it's a charm against evil."
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ED JOHNSON
INDECISION TIME
Beginning on January 25th a project by Los Angeles artist ED JOHNSON will
be on view at London Street Projects. There will be a CLOSING reception
for this show on March 1st, Saturday, 7-10pm.
The exhibit takes the 19th anniversary of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade as its
jumping-off point. "Work undertaken as a celebration of the album," says
Johnson, "turns into a more oblique rumination on insomnia, psychedelics,
and demon possession. A paean to lassitude and racing minds. A vision seen
outside London Street and clean feedback amplified in a tiny little bowl.
Two needlepoint pieces and small booklet containing stories by myself,
Domenick Ammirati, Jon Raymond, Catherine Sullivan and Jon Wurster."
LONDON STREET PROJECTS
2924 Bellevue Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90026
hours: Saturdays 12-6pm
or by appointment: (213) 413-1210