Dana Levy "Wild Thing"

Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

poster for Dana Levy "Wild Thing"

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"Wild Thing," is the first New York solo exhibition by Israeli artist Dana Levy. For this exhibition, Levy considers the complexities and contradictions between the man-made world and our surrounding natural habitats. Specifically focusing on vegetation, both wild and cultivated, "Wild Thing" configures new tension to the age-old struggle of man vs. nature. Levy’s video installation "The Abandoning" re-defines our sense of home as a temporary structure and exposes the vulnerability of architectural constructs. Focused on a neglected Greenwich Village building with interior and exterior overrun by climbing ivy, Levy films and animates this home site with natural growths to explore ideas of decay and renewal, chaos and order. Executed with a playfulness that is at once both academic and lyrical, Levy delivers a formal investigation of entropy with an allegorical edge. Several short poetic verses, constructed from photographs taken of garden nameplates, reveal Levy’s savvy use of irony. These labels, with wildly imaginative titles ("Tall, Dark and Handsome;" "Virgin," "Super-Ego," etc.), anthropomorphize and objectify the plant life, while hinting at a nominal function. Paradoxical and satirical, these limericks suggest a back story to the video installation through their suggested narratives.

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Schedule

from April 15, 2010 to May 16, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-04-15 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Dana Levy

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