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Lyons Wier Gallery is proud
to present Andrés Basurto, Inspired By a True
Story.
Mexican artist Andrés Basurto's
glass mosaic sculptures deal with the act of construction through the action of
destruction. Using shards from glass bottles that at one time held wine and
beer, Basurto molds the raw material into specific shapes that evoke the human
skull and skeleton as a container of the
soul.
His sculptures represent the
essential and primitive human desire to preserve and hold life together with the
inutile need to control death, making evident the fragility of our
existence.
Running concurrently with this exhibition, Lyons Wier
Galleryis working in collaboration with Antena Estudio from Mexico City and
Andrés Basurto at PULSE New York from March 3-6, 2011.
Andres Barsurto has shown
extensively throughout Mexico including: the Museo Arocena, Torreón Coahuila;
3rd Biennale of Visual Arts, Cultural Institute of Yucatan, Merida; the Museum
of Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; XII Biennale Rufino Tamayo, Tamayo Museum of
Contemporary Art, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca; Salón de
Octubre / "Gran Premio Omnilife", Guadalajara; Manuel García Arte Contemporaneo,
Oaxaca Basurto's work has been featured at the Pulse Art Fairs in New York
and Miami and has shown in the BP Portrait Award exhibition in London, England,
Aberystwyth, Wales and Aberdeen,
Scotland.
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Vanitas Series Installation
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For more information and images,
please
contact:
Michael Lyons Wier at
gallery@lyonswiergallery.com
542 West 24th
Street
New York, NY
10011
Phone: (212)242-6220
www.lyonswiergallery.com
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Currently on View in the Gallery thru 2/27/11: James Rieck -
Enter the
Dragon
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Utilizing the ubiquitous form of communication and self-expression of
the T-shirt, artist James Rieck uses the T-shirt as a blank slate upon which he
communicates the narrative in his work. Exclusively
appropriating action film stills from Bruce Lee movies, including the use of
Lee's most famous film as the title of his show, Rieck digitally composes Lee's
classic martial art scenes onto his subjects T-shirts. Each
larger than life painting hosts an individual or group of tantalizing young
women, whose body language conveys the choreographed Kung-Fu scene adorning
their snug fitting shirts. for full press release &
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James Rieck, Low Blow Oil on canvas, 44 x 84 in / 112 x
213
cm
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