"Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)" Exhibition
Deitch Projects (LIC)
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Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious) is a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus. Deitch Studios riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule.
Passing the colorfully muraled exterior of the building, guests enter from the riverside entrance beside a neon atom bomb explosion into the main installation. This large gallery space will be filled with collaborative sculpture, murals, and rugged found materials inspired by the construction sites found throughout the city and especially from Williamsburg into Long Island City. As traditional Brooklyn buildings are demolished to make way for glittering condo towers, so will this installation feature old architecture crashing down amidst black construction mesh, scaffolding, and shattered wood. avaf will contaminate this wreckage to pull new forms out of the destruction.
In this exhibition avaf creates a zone for reconstruction and rehabilitation, overseen by the goddess of change: the trannie. At the center of the main gallery lies an enormous back-bending, gender-bending figure split apart by a derelict Brooklyn house. The rear of the exhibition is a space for the repertoire of collaborative performances and video avaf has assembled to activate this explosive exhibition. Debuting here will be a new video in collaboration with Honeygun Labs. Amidst the music and video projections, the theme is the destruction in reconstruction through dance and devotion.
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Schedule
from May 10, 2008 to August 10, 2008
Artist(s)
avaf, Kenny Scharf, Desi Santiago, Michael Lazarus, Neon, Dudu Bertholini, Rita Comparato, Rick Castro, Fabio Gurjao, Rodrigo Garcia Dutra et al.
Reviews
Demolition Disco with assume vivid astro focus
The energetic artist collective, assume vivid astro focus, has taken over Deitch Studios, LIC with a sprawling universe of deconstructive collage and a party-minded take on urban renewal in NYC.
The opening party for this event was f***ing awesome!
View additional coverage of the show at www.Artobserved.com, here: Go See: Assume Vivid Astro Focus at Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY, through August 16
Ever the purveyor of fun, Deitch Studios in Long Island City has been completely taken over by the Brazilian art collective Assume Vivid Astro Focus for the summer, resulting a lively installation entitled Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious)