Art Installation I New York

282 BROADWAY

SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION I NEW YORK

NEW YORK 2000

This gallery shows an art installation with original work and found objects presented to an audience in the Spring of 2000 in New York.

ARTISTS

Artwork by Pedro Valiente, Chinese Flying Boy by Lisa Rubin, and photography by Laurie Churba.

WILLIAMSBURG

It is site-specific artwork produced in 282 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York. The building hosted The Family, a production company founded by Spanish filmmaker Guillermo Escalona and other international artists. The Family produced a number of media work, promoted interdisciplinary arts, and nurtured multicultural life. Broadway in Williamsburg is the crossroads of Latino and Hasidic Jews communities.

INSTALLATION

282 Broadway is a mixed media installation in the context of contemporary art.

"In visual art, mixed media is an artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages and collages are two common examples of art using materials including cloth, paper, wood and found objects. I The combining of various media is closely related to the experimentation in color printing. combined, the media often complement each other". [Wikipedia, Britannica]

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282 Broadway set focus on items from hardware stores in Brooklyn (knives, fishing net, wires), things from Chinatown (dry fish), and vintage toys from Manhattan (farmers, historical figures). Crafted pieces include glass, wood (bookshelves, table), and metal (electric tubes, construction stands).

ARTWORK

SPACE A presents the Chinese Flying Boy by visual artist Lisa Rubin. This real-size sculpture with traditional clothes is suspended on the ceiling surrounded by fish that draw their trace in water with thin threads. Light comes from articulated flash lights and a fish tank with live lobsters. Several frames on the walls include a Lover (two octopus entangled) and a Rebel (fish swimming in the opposite direction of its group).

SPACE B presents BrotherMan, a wall-size figure of a man made with large cane sticks; Last time I got up to a trapeze... a trapeze artist suspended in the middle of the room. All is glanced by nuns and aliens as creatures close to outer-space.

SPACE C presents full-wall shelves and a drawing table both made out of wood and metallic pieces with swinging glass. Looking from below, the audience can see for instance knives coming out of a woman. The main piece is OctoFighter, a creature with tentacles resembling an octopus. Its body is made out of a rare metallic stand for construction which shows a bullfighter and three clocks setting the time of his birth, first bullfight, and death.

SPACE D presents Lulu's Hallway including a metallic body of a female threatened by a saw. SPACE E presents live crabs and frogs in Laboratory of Creatures from Another World. SPACE F presents Sardines in Water looking at fish (alive) in open waters and (dead) in canned waters.

SPACES

Space A is a T-shape hallway, Space B is a room, Space C and D are large rooms connected with a hallway, Space E and F are side rooms.

SPACE A

Chinese Flying Boy

Betrayer, Rebel, Lover, Gladiator

SPACE B

BrotherMan

Glowing Wire

Lightening Captured in an Empty Space

Last time I got up to a trapeze...

SPACE C

OctoFighter