Andre Juste and Vladimir Cybil Charlier "Recasting Paradise"

Skoto Gallery

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Skoto Gallery presents Recasting Paradise, an exhibition of recent mixed media work by the collaboration of Haitian-American artists Andre Juste and Vladimir Cybil Charlier. “Recasting Paradise” is an attempt to distill and reinvent various aspects of Haitian history and culture, especially as they are represented in the country’s art or art-marketing practices. The Charmin’ series, mainly landscapes made of woven and faux-woven bands of silk made to look like toilet paper, is symbolically a cleansing, dressing as well as an adjusting of the country as both geographical and aesthetically re-imagined place. Likewise the Buy the Yard series, which comprises bolts of contiguous pictures that could be bought by the yard, foregrounds the successes and failures of the art object (as well as the artist) as commodities. Of course the idea of paradise associated with Haiti or the Caribbean, or any other place that dollar-wielding tourists have flocked to, is essentially bogus. But the falsity of an idea does not necessarily thwart its currency and the artists succeed in trying to marshal fact and fiction, memory and reality, art and commodity into poignant, libratory gestures.

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from September 10, 2009 to October 17, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

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