Rafael Sanchez "Speak Boldly / What Goes up Must Come Down / Kandinsky's Painted on Both Sides / Being and Nothingness / Milk Bath"

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Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work entitled, "The Limit as the Body Approaches Zero."

"Speak Boldly" honors the life of Julius Eastman, a minimalist African-American composer, pianist, vocalist and dancer.

"What Goes up Must Come Down" is a visualization of this physical and social law.

"Kandinsky's Painted on Both Sides," compares process versus product, in which the artist becomes the canvas.

"Being and Nothingness / Milk Bath" uses literature from the Négritude movement and Jean-Paul Sartre’s "Being and Nothingness" and "Black Orpheus," in which the artist questions the subject and objectivity of blackness.

Sanchez’s performances often bridge the spectacle of street life with the meditative interiority of private rituals. During this exhibition, the artist will stage performances every Saturday that provoke questions about issues as diverse as masculinity, sexuality, gentrification, and bodily limits. In deceivingly simple gestures and epic endurance feats, Sanchez uses his body to carry ideas about the performative conditions of daily life in the city and how it is inscribed with desire, pain, musical rhythms, absurdity and poetry. Sanchez demands that viewers make a “psycho-educational commitment to enhancing his or her own perception of reality.”

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July 24, 2010 from 12:00 to 18:00

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