This Saturday is sure to be a show for the ages. All the right elements seem to be in place (including the weather) for an amazing opening night. The work is stellar, the installations are being constructed --the murals just about dry now.
We have several musical performances that aim to create just the right soundtrack for "MAKE IT FIT", a collaborative effort by Brooklyn-based artist SPECTERand the duo from Berlin know as VARIOUS & GOULD. We couldn't be more thrilled to be hosting this exhibition. Come see for yourself.
"MAKE IT FIT"
SPECTER • VARIOUS & GOULD
OPENS THIS SATURDAY!
MARCH 20, 7-10pm
Special Musical Performances
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DESPITE THE RUMORS: NO ARTISTS WERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO
SO WHAT IS "MAKE IT FIT" ALL ABOUT YOU ASK? WE'LL BECAUSE IT'S OUR JOB TO TELL YOU, WE CAME UP WITH THIS. . . .
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The concept of “work” can be interpreted in many different ways depending on whom you hit up. Brooklyn-based artist, SPECTER and German duo VARIOUS & GOULD have each located discarded materials, used skill and ingenuity and re-conceptualized things in pulsating ways you might never have imagined. All this done in effort to turn the concept of “work” on its ear in an exhibition appropriately titled, “Make It Fit”.
Cart-pushers, delivery boys and slave-laborers – take the spotlight in much of the work created by the artist who goes simply by the name SPECTER. With all of his portraits based on real people living at the bottom of the capitalist barrel, Specter forces the general public to see what they might rather not – those who got left behind. Collecting materials in much the same fashion his subjects do, SPECTER incorporates shopping carts, bicycles, and crates along with engaging images of your everyday worker, paying special attention to what makes them tick. His work is hand-crafted, retro-fitted, clever and fresh.
For the creative team of VARIOUS & GOULD the concept of “work” means looking well beyond the vigor of the everyday tasks one has to perform for a paycheck and instead focusing on the surprisingly graceful interaction between a laborer and his tools. Imagine peering into the cut-out holes we often see at a construction site and being exposed to a vibrant world of multi-colored uniforms, enlarged tools and graphic text. A world where workers trade body parts depending on their needs, moving in tandem while performing their repetitive tasks in a choreographed “workers waltz”. Using found objects, work related symbols and their refined silkscreen techniques, the line between work and play becomes blurred inside the imaginative minds of VARIOUS & GOULD.
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Brooklynite Gallery is located at 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Brooklyn, New York 11233. We are open Thursday thru Saturday from 1pm – 7pm or by appointment. We are located 2 blocks from the A or C subway to Utica Ave. stop.
