A
Slow Walk with Marco Maggi
A
conversation with Sheila Yoshpe
...The extreme percussion of news prevents any repercussion
of the news. An overdose of drama is the perfect anesthetic, a tool
for censorship that is more efficient than a pair of scissors.
We
are setting up a society of dysfunctional information: reality becomes
illegible and the visual arts become invisible. My drawings resemble
writing in a language I cannot read.
What
is your upcoming show in Chelsea about?
It’s
a six-month dialogue between a Steadler pencil and an X-acto knife.
These two tools were working without hurry or pause on materials
as diverse as they are mundane. Reynold’s Aluminum foil from
ShopRite, Macintosh apples from the Wallkill View Farm, aluminum
rulers from Manny’s, plexi from New Paltz Glass, paper reams
from PDQ,Clayboard from Ampersand [Texas], graphite sheets from
China, and Yupo paper from Japan.
The
show will be a concept traveling slowly on several surfaces.
Why
the title: By Disappointment Only?
It
refers to the sign that hangs in some select galleries…by
appointment only. I am so disconcerted with what is happening in
the world and I feel that not one of us would have made an appointment
to visit our planet at this moment. We are witnesses to the first
global disappointment.
We
all feel out of place at the start of the 21st century. The Frenchfeel
like strangers in France...
CONTINUE...
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