INTIMATE WINE RECEPTION
CROWN OF THORNS
"Superconversations: Nina Power, Review of HEAD, Indigo is the color of the sublime rising, dead, after collapsing in on itself", 16/12/15.
Pae White
Gustav Metzger
Sterling Ruby
Superflex
Aida Ruidlova
Oscar Tuazon
MARCH 19 - MAY 08, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION SUNDAY MARCH 20, 12 - 4 PM
CHATEAU SHATTO
406 W PICO BLVD
LOS ANGELES, CA
‘… a giant figure steps into the scene moving unsurely, losing its step, slipping and recovering its balance. It’s a giant albino praying mantis, tattooed with a grain pattern. An epidermis-like wood, but drained of all colour. Nine feet tall. Some kind of insect-humanoid hybrid, with an element of dragonfly. Similar to the vast mutoid-extended versions in the far south. Its feethave been cut off, right at the Achilles tendon. Footless, it stumbles forward slowly, trailing blood, balancing on its lower leg bones. Its arms outstretched. Its face racked with emotion. It desperately attempts to keep its balance over the shiny surface of the convention centre floor like some translucent, white-fucked, stilt walker. Or a crab-spider distortion...'
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