{"id":31803,"date":"2019-01-31T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=31803"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:05:12","slug":"add-to-calendar-melvin-grave-guzmans-detourned-at-abxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/add-to-calendar-melvin-grave-guzmans-detourned-at-abxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Add to Calendar: Melvin \u201cGrave\u201d Guzman’s D\u00e9tourned at ABXY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t let the frigid temperatures keep you locked inside all day. Put on your Orolay coat<\/a>, grab some Ivan Ramen and then walk 200 ft to Lower East Side gallery ABXY<\/a> and check out D\u00e9tourned\u201d a solo exhibition by Harlem-born artist Melvin \u201cGrave\u201d Guzman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cD\u00e9tourned<\/a>\u201d is the artist\u2019s second solo show with the gallery following \u201cA Grave New World\u201d (2018). The immersive installation showcases a new collection of the artist\u2019s monumental mixed media work as well as a spooky soundtrack, a short film featuring Guzman\u2019s performance art, and a projection on display in an artist-designed theater within the gallery.<\/p>\n

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exhibition view\/\/ photo credit Erik Barden<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We won’t give too much away, but the exhibition includes paper-mach\u00e9 pi\u00f1atas, simulated pinball machines, hand-painted flags, and doll-sized houses. Like the internet, these objects invite human interaction in a language that requires we subscribe to their symbolic significance. Some of those objects include fashion favorites like\u00a0Off-White\u2122 x Nike sneakers and famed restaurant Sant Ambroeus<\/a> to-go bags.<\/p>\n

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In an effort to move the audience out of their comfort zone, Guzman transforms space and time to bring us something holy: an entirely recycled environment, where each work attempts to reclaim the realization of dreams and the possibilities of a transformed life from the spiritual vacuum of contemporary capitalist media.<\/p>\n

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Fun fact:\u00a0The title of the exhibition is French for\u00a0d\u00e9tournement,\u00a0(roughly translated meaning: derailment, or overturning), an artwork resulting from the practice of appropriating or altering existing media artifacts in order to give them a new subversive meaning, often shifting the original meaning to one with revolutionary significance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHis art, a tracing of his travels and examination of the traces strewn to the side of our perpetual distraction, is a saving grace, the best thing that can be said about all that is wrong at the moment,”\u00a0Carlo McCormick who penned the exhibition essay, ” Guzman\u2019s art are nonetheless pointed and purposefully problematic, a record of wishful and wistful wondering written in the wry tones of self-reflexive identification.”<\/p>\n

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The exhibition will be on view from January 17 \u2013 March 10, 2019 at ABXY<\/a>,\u00a09 Clinton St, New York, NY.<\/p>\n

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photo \/\/ Melvin (Grave) Guzman, Consumption Flu, 2018, Photo credit: Erik Barden<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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all images \/\/ courtesy of ABXY gallery<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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