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Polymorph
Magnús Árnason
Project Room: Flight 19
July 14 - August 31, 2007
Opening reception: Saturday, July 14 @ 7pm
MAGNÚS
ÁRNASON SY´NIR Á MIAMI
Fréttatilkynning
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Polymorph by LP Director Claire Breukel
LOCUST PROJECTS is pleased to announce "Polymorph,"
the first and much awaited North American exhibition
by Icelandic artist Magnús Árnason. "Polymorph"
is an organic, sprawling and haunting installation.
Árnason hails from the snow-covered lava fields
of Iceland. In his exhibition 'Polymorph,' Árnason
channels all the dread that these lava fields hide beneath
their seemingly serene surfaces. Originally scheduled
for last January, this exhibition will finally take
place in the hottest months of the year. As if things
weren’t going to be sticky enough already, Árnason
promises to turn Locust Projects into a slimy and organic
cave, filled with strange sounds, weird kinetic sculptures
and archaic forms lathered with primordial gunk. Archaic
rituals are infused with a dose of Death Metal theatricality
and horror movie atmospherics. It’s a dark and
primitive theater, a staging of goo as it overtakes
a space and our imaginations. Like a biological memory,
Árnason’s installations give us back some
of those organic and slimy landscapes we must have once
considered home. Árnason studied in Vienna and
has exhibited his work in Reykjavík, Berlin and
Turin. In addition to his sculptural work, Árnason
is also known for his dark and enigmatic performances.
Project Room: FLIGHT 19
In the LP Project Room, Tampa-based collective Flight
19, bring us "Rediviva," a series of sculptures
and drawings based on the debris scattered over Nacagdoches,
Texas, in 2003.
Flight 19 (also known as Experimental Skeleton), a
Tampa-based collective, is producing a new installation
entitled "Rediviva" featuring work by artists
Jeremichael Bonds, Robert Chambers, April S. Childers,
Noah Doely, Bob Dorsey, The Fluff Constructivists, Gregory
Green, Joe Griffith, Kara Holland, Kym O'Donnell, Paul
Pisoni, Jason Rodricks and Brian Taylor. Invited to
exhibit in the Locust booth at last year’s Scope
Fair, the group, in collaboration with culture jammers
Negativland, brought a crowd-favorite Abe Lincoln animatronic
that was caught in a dizzying loop of speech-snippets.
For this exhibition, Flight 19 will produce an installation
that includes a series of sculptures and drawings based
on the debris scattered over Nacagdoches, Texas, in
2003, when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated
reentering earth’s atmosphere. The haunted fragments
that Flight 19 will present continue along the lines
that the group has always traveled: between sculpture
and props, between refined art and low- end bad taste,
between reality and movie magic.
All exhibitions open on Saturday, July 14, 2007, 7-11pm
as part of the Wynwood Art District Walk and end August
31, 2007 and are on view to the public Thursday- Saturday
12-5pm. Both exhibitions will be on view to the public
Thursday- Saturday 12-5pm and end August 31, 2007.
Events sponsored by: American Scandinavian Foundation,
Eimskip, USA, Peroni, Italy
Locust Projects is an alternative, not for profit,
Miami-based exhibition space dedicated to providing
contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment
with new ideas and methods without the pressures of
gallery sales or other limitations of conventional exhibition
spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific
installations as an extension of their representative
work and are provided a residence to live while working,
offering them a vibrant Miami experience to develop
their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed
to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the
Miami and international art community to experience
the work and meet the artists.
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LOCUST PROJECTS is sponsored, in part,
by The Dade
Community Foundation with support of The Miami-Dade
County Dept of Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs
Council, The Mayor, and The Miami-Dade Board of County
Commissioners.
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