Adriana Arenas
dal 7/2/2002 al 11/3/2002
Segnalato da
7/2/2002
Adriana Arenas
Roebling Hall, New York
"The Precious Stone and Gold Factory". The artist brand new multimedia work creates a transformative space for individual and collective reflection through her highly ideosyncratic combination of Latin popular music, moving and still digital imagery, video and self-invented myth.
Roebling Hall is extremely pleased to announce its first gallery
exhibition of the poetic video, installation and print work of ADRIANA
ARENAS. Allusively titled "The Precious Stone and Gold Factory,"
Arenas' brand new multimedia work creates a transformative space for
individual and collective reflection through her highly ideosyncratic
combination of Latin popular music, moving and still digital imagery,
video and self-invented myth.
Employing humor and elements of kitsch, such as popular music from
her native Colombia to startingly moving effect, Adriana Arenas has
explored the themes of romantic love, race, politics and colonialism in
previous large-scale installations, punctuating these with a deep sense
of nostalgia as well as a continuing fascination with the difficulties of
cultural translation.
Featuring a complex, seemingly incredible backstory that recalls the
imaginative flights of of fancy of certain primitive artists, Arenas' newest
work establishes a dramatic tension between two fictional characters,
"Mr. Fixation Deluxe" and Ms. Nature," the principal fictional sources
from which"The Precious Stone and Gold Factory" flows.
An archetypal story of love, loss and misdirection told chiefly through a
single large video projection, a "talking" TV monitor and five discrete 4
x 5" "moving paintings," Adriana Arenas' "The Precious Stone and
Gold Factory" spins its ambiguous but captivating tale by means of
sensous, entrancing rhythms and images. The resuting installation-part
high-concept soap-opera romance, part Lucy In the Sky with
Diamonds-alchemically transforms the work's base emotions into the
gold and precious gems of an edlessly looping and atmospheric
beauty.
Born in Pereira, Colombia, Adriana Arenas has exhibited in, among
other venues, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum
of Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cinicinnati, The Museo de Arte
Reina Sofia, OpenSpace (Milan) and Palazzo Tupputti. "The Precious
Stone and Gold Factory" will open March 7, 2002, at the Rice
University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Roebling Hall
390 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn NY 11211
Reception Friday, February 8th, 7-9 PM