Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) – Ydessa Hendeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
The largest collective work in this show is ‘Partners: The Teddy Bear Project’ by Ydessa Hendeles, a 3000 strong collection of family-album framed photographs of people with teddy bears dating from roughly 1900-1940, including vitrines of antique bears. The collection is vast, spanning two double-height rooms. Like the people in the photos, the bears not only become a memory, but also a physical preservation of the individual subject’s life. The sheer quantity of imagery is overwhelming, and the dedication to the artist’s pursuit is absolute.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n01-01-2014 \u2013 12-31-2014 (01-01-14 \u2013 02-29-14) – Yuji Agematsu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
Brooklyn-based artist Yuji Agematsu makes one work per calendar day. These tiny cigarette-sleeve bags\u00a0of fragments are made up of the unassuming, the discarded, the wasted. Agematsu collects detritus from the streets – anything from hair to rocks, chewing gum to plastic – items that have been changed by time. The assemblages bring the otherwise inanimate fragments a new lease of life, bringing them color, vitality, and resoluteness. The disgusting becomes the treasured, and the hopeless becomes the accomplished.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nThe Houses of Peter Fritz – Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser [Photo courtesy of New Museum]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhile browsing a junk shop, Artist Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser discovered a wealth of intricate, architectural constructions made by Austrian insurance clerk\u00a0Peter Fritz. 387 constructions to be exact. Displayed\u00a0on a large plinth, a selection of 126 of these buildings are shown, made from everyday materials such as\u00a0matchboxes, plastic, and cardboard. The buildings are incredibly detailed, based on imaginary Swiss architecture.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nWeltrettungsprojekt [World Rescue Project] – Vanda Vieira-Schmidt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAfter her release from a psychiatric unit in 1995 and convinced demonic beings were torturing people on the underground with portable uranium devices, Vanda Vieira-Schmidt has been obsessively creating mathematical drawings and diagrams on A4 paper, often thousands\u00a0a day in an attempt to combat this problem head-on. The drawings act as more than an attempt to keep Vieira-Schmidt’s peace of mind – for the artist, these works can directly influence world peace and war can be limited\u00a0by the drawings.<\/p>\n
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The exhibition is on view until 09\/25\/2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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