Elvis Studio "Toy Sculptures"
Adam Baumgold Gallery (40 E 75th St.)
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The exhibition will feature hand painted wooden sculptures of toys by the enigmatic Swiss (Geneva) artists Helge Reumann and Xavier Robel, who have done collaborative work as Elvis Studio since 1996.
The new series of Toy Sculptures by Elvis Studio explore boyish violence and the terrors of play. A nostalgic 1950's spaceman toy "Robot" is layered like a nesting doll- remove the iron shell to discover the vulnerable astronaut within- remove the astronaut's skin to see the trouble workings of his interior. The hand-made silkscreened box pictures the spaceman running in fear across a lunar wasteland.
The bumper car amusement ride "Wetzel" is surrounded by thuggish spectators, and recalls the unsavory fun of the carnival. A toy sawmill becomes a scene of martyrdom for helpless trees, the dying logs sporting halos. An innocent toy bus is neatly sliced down the center, to open and reveal all the passenger's guts. Each precisely crafted piece dissects the dark realms of the childish imagination. The "Brutallo Toy Series" repackages cheap plastic toys to highlight their dark lessons about adult life. "The Elvis Studio vision is deliberately juvenile in a good way. In its cheerfully dark humor it expresses feelings shared by people of all ages that the world might be teetering on the brink of total chaos ."
.Also included in the exhibition will be large drawings executed individually by Xavier Robel for the monolithic comics anthology Kramer's Ergot 7.
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from February 12, 2010 to March 20, 2010