Peter Feigenbaum Exhibition

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“Expanding upon his 2010 Streetsmart project in which he photographed his photorealistic architectural sets of decaying 70s era New York buildings on the streets of Park Slope using surreal compositional juxtapositions, Peter Feigenbaum’s Streetsmart II: XRO takes the exercise one step further into surrealism and psycho-geography.

Feigenbaum has since created a portable module that allows his sets of miniature abandoned buildings to be mounted atop the roof of a car. In late 2011, he scoured the rapidly gentrifying outer reaches of Bed-Stuy and Harlem to find the city’s last remaining derelict boarded up blocks(often marked with the Fire Departments “XRO” tag, signifying “roof out”).

After double parking on busy city streets and deploying the installation on the roof of his car, Feigenbaum acted quickly and decisively to take photographs that created a strong surreal compositional dialogue between the real life abandoned buildings in the background and the miniature sets in the foreground that mimic the reality behind them. While the images have parallels to hyper-real architectural renderings, the resulting scenes suggest anti-architectural interventions and a lust for urban entropy. Thus via Feigenbaum’s photographic interventions, the city’s few remaining derelict blocks become time warps into the feral, moody, ghost-world of decaying 1970s New York City that he has been obsessed with via his work”

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from April 06, 2012 to April 12, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-04-06 from 18:00

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