BEARING LOADS: Small Sculptures attempt alchemy
All the King's Horsemen, 2015 - title of group of artworks by Ibghy and Lemons exhibited at Postmaster's Gallery, NYC, group exhibit
NOTES:• defy commodification
• visual symbols of economic theories and statistics
• how to attain economic equilibrium for society
• fragility of materials metaphor for flimsy inaccuracy, unverifiable quality of economic theory
• non-specific visual representations of each theory and its graphed or visualized possibilities - instead of an identifying label, form and shape should inherently display more specific meaning of each concept
gallery statement
By barely being there, these sculptures get at the inherent immateriality of mathematical and statistical calculations. In our current economic and social climate, however, they also speak of the fragile grasp on reality that economics seem to have, spewing will o' the wisp ideas and ideals that never seem to pan out in practice. Bębecka said that these pieces are what got her launched into theme of her show, and that means that her whole project has a political dimension: We need smallness, right now, as a moral counterweight to the oversized forces we are all up against. - quote from ArtNews website 2-11-16
Each of these small objects may be a 3-d graph, showing direction, levels, revealing data. They also look like sails, methods of transport across difficult seas. Each has a small handwritten tag, I think, labeling the sculpture with an economic concept.
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| "Marginal Cost to Society" |
Supply and Demand for Immortality, 2011
Sharjah Bienniel, 2011, application to front of museum façade
I love the wry, arch puncturing tone of each of these descriptions of a someone I seem to know (me?) and his/her hypocritical, annoying, dishonest, foolish, self-carved niche of personal delusion lovingly cultivated and maintained.
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