Blue Box Gallery Presents Gabriel Barcia-Colombo Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Birdsong in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
After exhibiting in places as far afield as Austin, Texas and Linz, Austria, the Los Angeles-born, New York-based Barcia-Colombo brings his pioneering collection of interactive, multi-media artworks – an amalgam of three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional video, dubbed “video sculpture”– to New York City.
The exhibition includes ten digital sculptures that play upon the exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. He repurposes everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam® into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people. While making conspicuous references to Marcel Duchamps’ ‘Ready-Mades,’ he also draws from an eclectic range of other influences, from the combines of Robert Rauschenberg and the video spectacles of Aernout Mik to taxonomy texts and anatomical drawings.
Blue Box is a mobile gallery (conceived of by Karen and Julia) dedicated to showcasing contemporary New Media artwork that redefines, remixes and reinterprets – in other words, hacks – conventional art-making practices.
Visit the website:
www.blueboxgallery.com
From March 12-20 the exhibition will be reinstalled in the RSPOP-UP Shop, also at The Roger Smith Hotel.
We’ve been working really hard over the past few months to make this exhibition a reality. We’re really excited and hope that you will come out to view Gabe’s stunning video sculptures, have a complimentary Belvedere cocktail and toast the occasion with us!
Also, to further celebrate this auspicious event please join us later on in the evening for a much-deserved after-party! We will be setting up shop in the basement of Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St.) starting at 11pm.
Music by The Tomcats and Gabe BC.
