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AIDAS
BAREIKIS
September 10 - 28, 1996
press
release:
CHAMBER 7 presents Aidas Bareikis. This exhibition consists of a room
size installation.
Using the floor as a work surface the piece is a distribution and scattering of found and made objects. As a result of the assumption that there are no fixed borders the work occupies mainly the floor, but is not limited by it. It could climb the walls as well, denying conventional boundaries.
The stuff that makes
upthe work are remains of absurdly radical processes.
Friendly fire, elegant destruction, fantastic pointless labor, subliminal
kitsch, and deadly fun.
It encodes ontological concerns and certains their failures.
Aidas Bareikas is a Lithuanian artist who after graduating from the Vilinus Academy of Fine Arts in 1993 received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New York. He lives and works in New York City.
CHAMBER is a roving exhibtion space established in 1993. Its purpose is to utilize borrowed real estate to provide a venue for artists outside the commercial gallery circuit.
CHAMBER will present
exhibitions at a newly renovated, 1,600 square foot space at 85 West Broadway
and also at 89 Canal Street. CHAMBER is devoted to enacting the highest
quality projects through the time and energy of its participants, and
the use of a non-neutral space.
There must be a social irresponsibility stemming from inner necessity: a state of freedom fully entitled to ecstatically and ostentatiously overwhelm the profane. But it is not enough.
There must be an anarchism against totalitarian demands for the perpetual consumer-friendly games and conventional manners. But it is not enough.
There must be a choice which rubs out that chalk line dividing the possible from the impossible. There must be a new law of miracles: a slapstick at the level of the sublime.
But it too is not enough.
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