Enter the Afterlife: A Conversation With The Bruce High Quality Foundation
by cameron shaw 03/23/09
Cameron Shaw met with members of the artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation to discuss Empire, on view at Cueto Project until April 11th. Inspired by Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire (1834-36), the exhibition spans media, transforming the city of [...]
At the ever-inventive Cueto Projects in Chelsea, artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation’s exhibition Empire (left) re-imagines another mediated, perpetually endangered space: New York City. Fusing painting, sculpture, photography and video, they’ve created a fair in which each work offers a new (or old) version of the city based on utopian architectural and urban [...]
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
One week left of Cueto Projects’ wormwood distillery
(Above, Gustave Adolphe Mossa)
There is literally not a single weak portion to Cueto Project’s two months’ plus in length piece de resistance, The Flowers of Evil Still Bloom, on view through January 31st. I tried to find one faulty placement, or even a weak thought process that went [...]
Jemma Jorel Interviews Valerie Cueto
For this interview, I headed over to Chelsea on the Eve of Christmas Eve to shake off a hangover with glamorous curator Valerie Cueto. Her eponymous gallery, The Cueto Project, is currently exhibiting an ode to symbolism called The Flowers of Evil Still Bloom (Spleen: Les Fleurs du Mal). The gallery is transformed into a sprawling apartment, dark and uncanny, and the tour through is quite captivating. There was a little something for everyone. If one did not appreciate the variety of mediums, whether the bed of Arnon or the coiffure chandelier by Shoplifter, then one would have to at least acknowledge the skilled fusion of contemporary and classic. Symbolism proves to be a lasting source of inspiration to artists, and a movement that stands the test of time as strange and astonishing. I think we all owe a thank you to Ms. Cueto for the fresh incentive to reread Against the Grain.
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