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Artist Statement:
The most beautiful part is
that it invents itself.
Simultaneoulsy, it re-invents
us. The most intriguing part
is that it is re-occuring:
continuously becoming -
therefore necessarily evolving
and revealing. It is
shameless because it reveals
itself through us without
permission, without the
necessity of qualification and
without the ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Broadway Gallery
473 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY
LURE Group Exhibition
June 16-30, 2008
Marziart Internationale
Galerie
Hamburg, Germany
July 2008
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EXHIBITION ARCHIVES
1990 Windsor Printmakers
Forum:
Annual Mini Print
Exhibition: Honourable Mention
1990 Carrousel of Nations
Exhibition
Windsor, ON
1990 Multicultural Society of
Windsor & Essex County...
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NY ARTS
September/October 2008
Volume 13, No. 9/10
THE ILLUSIVE LURE
By Milton Fletcher
(Excerpt)
Drawing on theoretical discourse related to the semantics of desire and difference, curator Basak Malone constructs a platform for multiple investigations of liminal space through LURE, recently presented at Broadway Gallery in SoHo. Reinterpreting classic texts from French structuralist and post-structuralist theory, Malone skillfully orchestrates a compelling constellation of works by a group of serious international artists. Navigating concepts related to "the other", "the gaze", "the simulacrum", and "agency", the exhibition features works by Jane McAdam Freud, Beatrice Englert, Michel Beaucage, Monika Iatrou, Ko Bhamra, ARVEE, Freddy Flores Knistoff, Sandro Bisonni, and Destroy Be. Each artist envinces a unique reading of the central themes of the exhibition, a fact that results in a welcomed diversity in terms of the modes of conceptualization and practice on view in the show.
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Pushing the envelope of painterly practices, are several distinct abstract artists exploring the boundaries between the real and "the other" as a space. Ko Bhamra submerges herself into a series of subconscious spaces, depicting the duality of agency inherent to the creative process itself. Not only does an artist invent an image, but the image re-invents the artist through process. According to Baudriallard, as the human subject attempts to understand the non-human object, which can only be grasped through its signifiers, he becomes seduced by its hyperreality. Echoing Batille's belief that erotic union causes a momentary indistinguishability between distinct object, and hence reveals new awareness of the unknowable continuity of being, Bhamra's approach is to renounce submission to the object itself, hence freeing her to witness a sense of timelessness that is unbound to the perceived world.
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Through a broad range of styles and media, the artwork on view in LURE simulated in the viewer an awareness of difference, whether that difference was between opposing subjects, divergent forms, or even between the artwork and the viewer himself.
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