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Three New York-based artists unhinge their mass media obsession at Locust Projects
It’s an all New York showcase at Locust Projects this Art Basel Miami
Beach. Scott Hug, showing in the main space, presents
40 larger-than- life “Page 6 Head” portraits.
In conjunction with the opening on November 11th,
7-11 pm, Hug will launch his renowned publication K48
and is constructing a platform on which New York band
Mirror Mirror will play at the second opening
during “Art Loves Design” on December 9th,
7-11pm. In addition, Hug’s work will be backed
up in the project room by sculptures and wall works
by Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua. Known for their sprawling
site- specific installations, Bercowetz and Bua create
a layered and even chaotic sensory experience. These
artists will be on view November 11- December 28, 2006.
Scott Hug is known for working at the intersection of
politics, pop culture, and media sensationalism, always
employing the keen eye and clean lines of high end graphic
designers and political propagandists. In drawings,
collages wall treatments, and installations, he employs
satire to engage American politics, global social events
and the logic of celebrity culture. “A Current
Affair” is in the main space at Locust Projects
this November. Hug will present a series of portraits
of “Page 6 Heads” including celebrities Woody
Allen and Nick Lache underlined with footnotes “Bored
by 9/11” and “Tight Leash” respectively.
A mirrored stage will feature band Mirror Mirror,
scheduled for a one- evening performance during the
opening event on Saturday, December 9th.
This will coincide with the first-ever Miami launch
of Hug's zine K48, which has become as synonymous
with the up-and-coming generation of artists- as Tom
Lawson's Real Life magazine once was for the appropriationists
of the mid-1980s.
In the Project room, Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua produce
physically and psychologically sprawling objects out
of anything and everything. Using simple means,
from foam core and carpet to popsicle sticks and electronics,
they create a complicated assemblage of paranoid and
unhinged associations. Applying the anxious logic
of conspiracy theory, their work reflects a world of
unfathomable information overload and political deception.
Bercowetz and Bua reassemble and entangle our once secure
ideologies—what begins as a curious exploration
of a sighting of the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese
sandwich ends as a posit for a new theory of human evolution
that replaces simians with reptiles. In a world
of uncontrollable media and high-speed data streaming,
Bercowetz and Bua may be giving us the first objects
that faithfully mirror our schizoid insides.
Both exhibitions are on view November 11- December 28,
2006 and will open with a preview opening for the Second
Saturday, Wynwood gallery walk night on Saturday November
11, 2006 from 7-10pm, followed by the official “Art
Loves Design” Art Basel opening on Saturday December
9, 7-11pm.
Scott Hug is exhibiting courtesy of John Connelly Presents,
NY and Matt Bua and Jesse Bercowetz are exhibiting courtesy
of Derek Eller, NYC, The Happy Lion, L.A. and Galerie
Michael Janssen, Cologne.
Events sponsored by:
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