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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Main Exhibition Space: : In his third one-person exhibition
at RARE, Chris Larson presents large-scale wooden sculpture. In
Pause Larson creates a life-size replica of the General E. Lee,
from Dukes of Hazzard fame, crashing through a representation of
Ted Kaczynski's Montana refuge.
RARE PLUS: In Witches Brüe, Brock Enright presents drawings that investigate the duality of perception and deception.
December 18, 2004 - January 22, 2005
Opening Night Reception, Saturday, December 18, 6-8 PM @ RARE, 521 West 26th Street,
NYC (take E or C train to the 23rd Street stop)
For additional information, please contact Kadar
Brock @ 212.268.1520 or kadar.brock2@verizon.net.
For images, log onto www.rare-gallery.com
Forcing together two illogically relevant worlds, Chris Larson creates a monument
to duality. Crashing the General E. Lee, the 1969 Dodge Charger
from TV's The Dukes of Hazzard, into a wooden shack, representing
Ted Kaczynski's Montana cabin, brings into the same space similar
ideologies expressed with both childhood recklessness and premeditated
social disregard.
With unmitigated enthusiasm, "The Duke Family -- brothers Bo and
Luke, assisted by their cousin Daisy and their Uncle Jesse, fight
the system and root out the corrupt practices of Hazzard County
Commissioner Boss Hogg and his bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane.
The show became an instant hit, never failing to win its time slot
during its original run on CBS for seven seasons from 1979-1985."1
A childhood favorite of many, this show was an icon of rugged individualism
and American enthusiasm, a taking into one's own hands the righteousness
of the law.
A similar logic extends from Ted Kaczynski's Unabomber Manifesto.
"[I]f the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable:
there is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent
it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. We therefore advocate
a revolution against the industrial system. . . . This is not to
be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments
but the economic and technological basis of the present society."2
Kaczynski began to act upon this logic and take the law into his
owns hands to fight against his own Boss Hogg.
Created with raw timber, this sculpture's mammoth presence explodes
into the gallery space. Continuing his ongoing investigation of
life's dualities, Larson combines culturally disparate yet conceptually
similar icons with a cinematic and visceral physicality, while delivering
a moral and ideological conversation. Larson received his MFA from
Yale University School of Art in 1992. He recently exhibited at
Franklin Art Works, in Minneapolis, where he constructed a life-size
crashed space ship from raw timber. Pause is the artist's third
solo exhibition at RARE.
In RARE PLUS, Brock Enright presents Witches Brüe. The work is
inspired by illustrations of explosions, witchcraft, smoke, and
perception-deception. The work exists, as Miss Piggy says in Miss
Piggy's Guide to Life, "because of all kinds of strange optical
things and complicated gizmos" seem to confuse and amaze us. After
receiving his MFA from Columbia, Enright developed his kidnapping
project, VIDEOGAMES. He has exhibited in numerous group shows. This
is the artist's first exhibition at RARE.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11-6, and Monday by appointment.
1. http://www.tvtome.com/DukesofHazzard/
2. http://www.panix.com/~clays/Una/una1.html#section1
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