Over at 80 Essex Street, just below Delancey, there’s a decrepit, abandoned, and very nondescript building on the east side of the street. According to curator Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, this old building used to be the Lower East Side’s main meat market a hundred years ago. Inside, it’s dank, dark, massive, and looks very ancient. There are beer bottles strewn about that look like they’ve been lying around since the 1940s. It’s the perfect space for a rave, a massive blow-out party, a real no-holds-barred type of affair.
But Roitfeld has something else in mind. He’s happy to announce that art will replace meat for the next month when he gives artist Nicolas Pol ten days and total freedom to prepare whatever he wants within the space—including possibly incorporating the old meat hooks still hanging from the ceiling for an installation. Pol is off in the corner, pounding away at some canvas frames, there are piles of rolled up canvases nearby, freshly shipped from Paris, and the space looks absolutely ready for his dark themed work.
Click here to view Nicolas Pol’s The Martus Maw.
VMAN caught up with Roitfeld and Pol as they geared up to present a showing of Pol’s large-scale, moody, and text heavy paintings, which, until November 9th haven’t yet been seen on American soil. Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment