Bombers
dal 21/2/2003 al 31/3/2003
Segnalato da
21/2/2003
Bombers
Martinez Gallery, New York
'Counter Current'. We shouldn't miss out, instead, on the chance to show the work of artists who have, historically and legitimately, blazed a path of courage and honesty; pioneers with a body of work so different than can be found in so-called Piecing, legality, muralism and the 'Fine Arts.'
COUNTER CURRENT
FROM FEB 22 THRU MARCH
Visiting certain entities within the "new" New York,
that disremembered, forgotten, or simply amnesiac city,
we are assaulted by a seemingly unprecedented strategy
of reactionary conceptual revisionism with respect to
graffiti. It's a vision that tries to trick us, to make
us unwilling participants in a shameful communion, all
strapped to the same heavy grindstone. But we shouldn't
miss out, instead, on the chance to show the work of
artists who have, historically and legitimately, blazed
a path of courage and honesty; pioneers with a body of
work so different than
can be found in so-called Piecing, legality, muralism
and the "Fine Arts." Thus we will be able to cross all
the "t's," as it were, a kind of insurance and plan of
attack against that lone naïf that still lets himself,
from ignorance or weakness, be fooled by the
machinations of the market, by the deep discounts of the
winter shopping season.
The primary examples of this bloodline of real,
authentic Bombers are Ghost, in the 80s, VFR, since '88,
JA, since '90, and Giz, since '93. Not one of them
kowtows before the idols of (1) legality, which of
course changes with time; (2) Muralism, practiced so
majestically by the Mexicans in the wake of their 20th
century revolution (Orozco, Rivera, Siquieros) and from
which Jackson Pollock, among many others, learned so
much; nor (3) the "Fine Arts," which are the exact
opposite of the kind of work seen, for example, in the
extraordinary Thomas de Quincey, that opium-eating
murderer of art and life; and of course (4) the
piecing, or assembly-line repetition that feeds the
hungry maw of the market; not to mention even remoter
influences, each with their appellation d'origin.
Before this conceptual swindle,
which won't even admit to its own name, only the Bombers
propose to do battle, counter current. Only the Bombers
dare to look across the river of lies that so many pay
tribute to, that so many permit by averting their eyes
-- those mute masses that know nothing of true graffiti
and even less of its spirit, philosophy and world vision.
BOMBERS: COUNTER CURRENT will be on display through
March. For more information or press queries, please
call 718.706.0606.
After Party: 10 PM Bobbito aka Dj Cucumberslice and Rich
Medina. Spinning afro beat, latin, rare funk,break beats,
progressive hip hop, and soulful house.
opening: feb 22 2002, 8 PM
after party: 10 PM -
Gallery Hours: 1 PM - 7 PM Thursday - Sunday.
M A R T I N E Z
gallery
37 Greenpoint Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11222 t 718 706 0606