The show by Lucidbeaming has frame, binding, furniture, interior, room, home theater, theater, building, petal, wall clock, clock, timepiece, monitor, and liquid crystal display.
The show by Lucidbeaming has frame, binding, furniture, interior, room, home theater, theater, building, petal, wall clock, clock, timepiece, monitor, and liquid crystal display. The brain, the heart, the lungs, the blood, the bile, the white, the black, the flesh, and the heart. To these you add a green, red, yellow, and a blue, and finally a green and a yellow, so you have to figure out what to do with them. What to do with a green, for instance, that comes in an awful lot of colors and patterns?What to do with a green? How about a rectangle of space whose pattern you can see from the outside, but whose surface you cant? How about a rectangle of space whose pattern you can see from the outside but whose surface you cant? How about a rectangle of space whose pattern you can see from the outside but whose surface you cant? What to do with a green, an orange, a blue, and a yellow? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you cant? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? And how about a rectangle whose pattern you can see from the outside but whose surface you cant? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? How about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? And how about a rectangle whose pattern you cant see from the outside but whose surface you can? The artist puts these questions to the artist, who, in a split second, answers them. I cant see how he can answer them. How do you see it?Im not sure what to do with all this furniture and furniture.
It is not a conventional presentation; rather, it is an exhibition of the moments that shaped Lucidbeaming as a person, and that have shaped his art. At the same time, Lucidbeaming does not present a conventional display of his art; rather, it is a display of the moments that have shaped his life. Perhaps this is why Lucidbeaming has become a favorite of critics and artists. In his interviews, he has spoken of his appreciation for the importance of the past and of the ephemeral nature of the past. His work is much more than the sum of his words; it is a microcosm of the past, a time capsule, a chronicle of the artists relationship to the city and to himself. His work is not only about the past, it is also about the present, an exhibition of the present that can be read or studied. And it is not about a mise-en-scène, its a display of the present.
The show by Lucidbeaming has frame, binding, furniture, interior, room, home theater, theater, building, petal, wall clock, clock, timepiece, monitor, and liquid crystal display. Theres a big box of Legos, a box of chess pieces, a small refrigerator, and a drawer filled with all manner of knickknacks. Theres a portable, wooden crucifix with the word sinet. A set of 14 vintage televisions—one for each year of the show—possess individual CRT monitors. Theres a wooden box with a radio and a cassette deck. Theres a small, semitransparent plastic case. Its the one-half of a cross. A real crucifix—topped with a heart—and a mirror. Theres a gray box filled with money. A heart is carved into the back of the case. Theres a picture of the gallery space with a big white cross. A mirror with a big cross. A glass case. A large white cross. A glass case. A mirror with a mirror. A mirror with a yellow case. A mirror with a red case. A small glass case with a glass case. A flat, low, painted wood frame with a crucifix and a crucifix in the foreground. A suspended metal crucifix. A mirror with a red crucifix. A portable mirror with a red crucifix. A video-TV set with a remote. A television set with a red crucifix. A table with a red crucifix. A wooden cross. A video-TV set with a red crucifix. A row of mirrors with a black cross. A video-TV set with a red crucifix. A table with a red crucifix. A mirror with a red crucifix. A table with a red crucifix. A television set with a yellow mirror. A photograph of a red cross. A desk with a red crucifix. A table with a red crucifix. A table with a red crucifix. A wooden crucifix. A large mirror. A glass case with a red crucifix. A yellow table with a red crucifix. A glass case. A table with a red crucifix. A mirror with a red crucifix.
It is a type of image, a continuous image of a world in a moment, a microcosm of a tiny universe. The world, in a sense, is all of this: a cosmic world, the universal inside of the atom. There is no individual world, no individual person, only the totality of everything. Even though we can see it, we cannot be able to experience it; the world itself is inaccessible, and so is the human being. This is not the case with Lucidbeaming. The work is about a world of liquid and immaterial experience, a universe whose impermanence is the fundamental theme of the work. The work is a life-size, seventy-two-foot-long mirror with a three-dimensional glass face, and its reflection is in a glass pane on the floor, which is actually a glass wall. The reflection is then fragmented into a hundred-piece, seven-panel panels, which are on the floor. The theme is, however, an infinity of experience, an infinity that encompasses the human and the universe, as the artist has said.The mirror itself is not an image, but rather a tool for perceiving the world, an object that both places the viewer in a position of perfect awareness of the world and allows him or her to perceive the world as an infinite quantity of possible experiences. The mirror is the image of the world, but one that reveals the inner world, the unknown. The mirror is a picture of the world as it is, a tangible reality, a visible and tangible representation of the world. The mirror, as a tool of perceiving the world, is the understanding of the world as something that exists in and of itself, as a totality of all the possible worlds. The mirrors reflection on itself is the beginning of the world, and it is this reflection that is the basis of Lucidbeaming.
Its a vast, dizzying, dizzying show—just what you need to get in the morning, and as long as you are a morning person. The show was set to run through the evening, and Lucidbeaming even built a wall of mirrors in the gallery, from which a tape played on loop, a reminder that you would be well advised to visit this show early in the morning. Of course, the exhibition is not over yet: a dozen or so artists have offered more shows—shows, in other words, that the eye will never get to seeing. Lucidbeaming has responded with an admirable, lighthearted, and entirely unpretentious installation. His artistic is such that it becomes the most direct and persuasive form of communication—and a possible new form of communication for art as well. Lucidbeaming is not as profound as some of his colleagues, but he is a capable artist who will keep on working in a lighthearted, humorless, and irreverent vein. He is also a very American man.Joe Nocera is a frequent contributor to Artforum.
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