NYAB Event - Istvan Kantor and Shalom Neuman “100% (pure) Crap”

Istvan Kantor and Shalom Neuman “100% (pure) Crap”

SPACEWOMb Gallery

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100% (pure) Crap is art that is anti-aesthetic - composed of myriad cheap objects and a barrage of assorted trash that is screwed to a flat or dimensional piece of wood. This “non-aesthetic” artwork can be an assault on the viewer’s intellect or refreshing data for the senses. The result is an objective that cannot be achieved through any other methodology. Screwing crap to a flat surface becomes the ultimate act of disruptive embellishment.

100% (pure) Crap is a collaborative project of internationally exhibited artists Istvan Kantor and Shalom Neuman.

Shalom Neuman’s multi-sensory artworks speak to his lifelong commitment to Fusionism, the seamless integration of all artistic disciplines into a genre all its own.

Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin, Neoist open-pop-star and art criminal, contributes his unlimited instincts to the growing confusion of crap-art trained through his guerilla interventions. Splashing his blood on white museum walls has become part of his ongoing Blood Campaign project. (In 1988 he was charged by the MOMA with $10 million worth of damage to a Picasso).

Both Kantor and Neuman were part of the Rivington School during the dissident and frantic LES art scene in the 1980s, embellishing the LES with graffiti, scrap metal sculptures, junk art, fire performances and other uncommon materials.

This exhibition commemorates the 30tht anniversary of FusionArts Museum on the Lower East Side of NYC, which was founded by Shalom Neuman in 1984.

On Saturday, May 10th from 12:00 pm to Midnight, members of the Rivington School will reunite at FusionArts Museum to create a new piece of 100% (pure) Crap Art.

A second event devoted to poetry and spoken word will take place on Saturday, May 17th, at FusionArts Museum featuring The Unbearables and special guests.