Andra Ursuta "Solitary Fitness"
Venus over Manhattan
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Although Ursuta's work deals with dark issues such as domestic violence, nuclear bombs, the uncovering of mass graves, and the expulsion of ethnic groups, she tries to approach each subject with irony. Spurred by an article about a woman stoned to death in a fundamentalist country, at Venus Over Manhatta Ursuta will use a baseball pitching machine to create what she calls a "silly execution device." "It's kind of a scary show," she says. "It has to do with punishment, and violence against woman. But I'm trying to deal with it in a non-moralizing way, by making fun of clichés."
Born in Romania in 1979, Ursuta came to New York to study at Columbia University in 1997. Her work, which is full of dark symbolism and mordant humor, lies very much in the intersection between the post-Impressionist, traditional education she received as a child, and the critical theory based curriculum she was immersed in while studying contemporary art at Columbia. Finding much of her inspiration in news stories and photographs she finds on the Internet, Ursuta's haunting sculptural installations—which draw comparisons to Yves Klein and Constantin Brancusi—explore contemporary experience through the lens of past histories.
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from February 13, 2013 to March 30, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-02-13 from 20:00 to 23:00