Daniel Velasquez
dal 11/5/2007 al 7/6/2007
Segnalato da
11/5/2007
Daniel Velasquez
Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles
Velasquez's installation work is an explosion of childhood, jungle, and tourist ephemera congealed to a biting tenderness. The work in its jovial rage, beautiful odd linkages, and loving hand betrays his hermetic life in the jungle for the past five years.
Solo show
Belize based artist Daniel’s Velasquez’s installation work is an explosion of
childhood, jungle, and tourist ephemera congealed to a biting tenderness. The work
in its jovial rage, beautiful odd linkages, and loving hand betrays his hermetic
life in the jungle for the past five years. The work contains barely concealed jabs
at consumerism and post consumer waste, and the eco political disaster that
threatens his beloved natural ecologies and wildlife.
Velasquez’s influences arise
out of his early years in the Peace Corps assigned to environmental development and
hurricane relief in Belize, Antigua, Barbuda, and Chile. Velasquez is also a
natural history filmmaker collaborating with National Geographic and independent
media. The work confronts and compels the viewer by forcing her to enter the
rickety color coded insides of Velasquez’s Brain, gooey, sometimes dusty, but
completely authentic and bearing its own strange symmetry. In his video, “Choice,”
we are again given a slice of another, perhaps more enlightened existence, filled
with wise children and naïve elders, and as always the ever present monumental
canopies of jungle and profusion of many formed life.
Opening Reception: May 12 7-10 p.m.
Closing Reception: May 26 7-10 p.m.
Bamboo Lane Gallery
424 Bamboo Lane - Los Angeles