Comments | uberdionysus: Chelsea gallery crawl: Mindy Shapero, Nigel Cooke

uberdionysus

Chelsea gallery crawl: Mindy Shapero, Nigel Cooke

Dec 14, 2006 00:42

Mindy Shapero: "The Infinite Truths of Flatterland" at CRG Gallery
I wish I wrote down all of the titles of Shapero's work, because the titles are as important as the work itself. Shapero's work is part of a constructed fantasy world with a crazy mythology, much like the early work of Matthew Ritchie, which was also stuffed with wild cosmologies ( Read more... )

nigel cooke, art

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strange_idols December 14 2006, 05:53:53 UTC

"Yellow and copper Ghosthead guide that will bring you to the Ghosthead god, you can only visualize the guide when you have entered the Monsterhead, and first you have to be serene enough to be able to even see the Monsterheads before you can wear one"

uberdionysus December 14 2006, 05:57:21 UTC

Exactly!

paracelsus December 14 2006, 09:00:55 UTC

Have you come across "Flathland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin A. Abbott, a Square? I'm a square, so I liked it.

It's like 'pataphysical in its goodness - a 2D society in which circles as 'perfect' shapes are the priests and autocrats, while other polygons have subordinate roles. I wish I had seen the Shapero - looks awesome.

uberdionysus December 14 2006, 14:53:29 UTC

Flatland is standard reading in elementary school. Or it was for most of the people I know who grew up in California. And yeah, I love it.

paracelsus December 15 2006, 00:08:34 UTC

Well now I feel like a dumbass, I only read it when I was 17. But I suppose I only read the Little Prince last year!

uberdionysus December 15 2006, 00:12:49 UTC

It's crazy, but The Little Prince is NOT common in the U.S. Neither is Tintin.

Blasphmey.

mybillee December 14 2006, 14:49:28 UTC

it amazes me that the chelsea is so big with so many galleries that i never see anything you post here that I've been to....and i go often!

uberdionysus December 14 2006, 14:52:16 UTC

CRG isn't a big gallery, but Shapero's show was reviewed in all the big publications, and she's an ex of a friend, so I looked for it.

Andrea Rosen Gallery is one of the biggest and most famous. She's one of the 'power galleries' on 24th St.

cranpape December 14 2006, 15:23:45 UTC

Shapero's stuff doesn't look / sound that cool 2 me but MAN those two nigel cooke pages!!

uberdionysus December 14 2006, 17:05:37 UTC

I really liked her sculptures, but yeah, those Nigel Cooke paintings blew me away. They still do. I couldn't believe how good they were.

And you can tell that most of those pics are details, right? I tried to show a complete pic and, every once in awhile, a detail or three.

cranpape December 14 2006, 17:36:22 UTC

yea, I mean, I don't know nothing about any art but I guess I just don't see what's fantastic about the Ghostfaces. the cosmological aspect could be v. neat but just sounds gimmicky / stoopid in a way that I don't like. "The moment all the universes" and "the one eye" are pretty good-looking, though! I like the black thing / the concept in the one w/ the black thing.

uberdionysus December 14 2006, 19:35:28 UTC

Knowing nothing about art doesn't make a real difference. Her cosmology and story telling has more in common with Dungeons and Dragons then Correggio or Francis Bacon. She also puts out a zine that is full of stories and yet more stuff about her cosmology. If it's stupid, it's no more stupid than any fantastical or sci-fi world created in movies, comics, or print.

The only important thing (to me) is "do you like it?" If you do, then it's worth while to figure out why. If you don't, it's only worth your attention if you want to figure out why you don't like it.

IMNSHO.