From info at montevistaprojects.com Mon Nov 3 14:21:10 2008 From: info at montevistaprojects.com (Monte Vista) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:21:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: Opening Saturday November 8 - "Free fall perspective, on line and perception" Message-ID: <50596.149.142.130.227.1225740070.squirrel@webmail5.pair.com> Please join us for ?Free fall perspective, on line and perception?, a group exhibition organized by Monte Vista and ART2102. The exhibition opens on November 8th, from 7-10 pm, and continues until December 7th. Visually stimulating and formally surprising, the work of Alejandro Pintado, Ricardo Alzati, and Diego Toledo questions the retinal experience and pushes the boundaries of the expected. Pintado?s photorealistic paintings of landscapes and architectural spaces are layered with vinyl patterns, evocative of cartographic topography maps, architectural diagrams, or mathematical isomorphs gone awry. The juxtaposition of the two visual languages creates an intriguing, perplexing dialogue. Alzati?s site-specific project for Monte Vista promises to be equally engaging. Alzati?s past site-specific installations offer a contemporary take on the idea of anamorphism. Like the famous distorted skull of Holbein?s painting, The Ambassadors, Alzati?s installations of painted lines and simple shapes, seems to offer the illusion of a coherent three dimensional form, when seen from a particular angle. However, Alzati?s illustionistic forms are always playfully skewed, questioning the possibility of a coherent, correct perspective. Toledo?s sculptural, painted constructions similarly play with a conjunction of contradictory perspectives, while also challenging traditional categories of sculpture and painting by combining the two in a complex relation where the second and third dimension meet. In diverse ways, the work of Alzati, Pintado, and Toledo all reflect upon the influence of systems in everyday life, by visually analyzing and breaking open the rational and logical way this system has come to represent three-dimensional space. Alzati, Pintado, and Toledo are all artists who were born in Mexico City, where Alzati still lives and works. Pintado now lives and works in London, and Toledo lives and works in Berlin. This exhibition inaugurates Monte Vista?s first collaboration with international artists with similar interests in alternative, artist-run, non-traditional methods of exhibition. Monte Vista is located at 5442 Monte Vista Street, LA, CA 90042. Hours 12-5pm Saturday-Sunday and by appointment. Please note that Monte Vista will be closed November 29 and 30. This exhibition was made possible by ART2102 http://art2102.org http://montevistaprojects.com/exhibitions/freefallperspective.html?src=invite -- Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042 www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: email announcement.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 314356 bytes Desc: not available Url :