Image: AurГ©lien MoleДЄn exhiВbiВtion curated by the stuВdents of the curating proВgramme from La Sorbonne - Paris 4ДЇor this year exhiВbiВtion proВject, the MasterвЂ™s stuВdents invited Didier Marcel to show his work in BГ©tonsalon Art and Research Centre. View of the Didier Marcel and LoГЇc RaguГ©nГЁs exhibition 'AperГ§u avant impressions', BГ©tonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2008.

is an artist, writer, translator and curator based in Brooklyn, New York.В More information about him is available here, and you can find him as on Instagram and Twitter. Follow him there for other posts as well. The occasional вЂњNota Bene pieces by Paul DвЂ™Agostino are modified versions of selected capsule reviews and other art notes he posts on Instagram. It was a joy to spend some quiet moments with вЂњTimeвЂ™s Wan WaveвЂќ just before its pale curtains fell a few weeks ago. Its gradual allure was gradually breathtaking. This very fine show at CLEARING proved to be one of my favorite of the many shows IвЂ™ve seen there to date. The visual hold of its faint вЂhhmuuhrrmuuhrrвЂ™-like sound-look is a treat from close up and less-so, an additionally interesting note to consider given the relative вЂdistancingвЂ™ implied by its title, вЂњLoin du chГўteau bleu.вЂќ In the one above, itвЂ™s all about the abundantly pink-muffled murmur of the buttergrass upgrowth that peeks out at the bottom of the bottom-most register. Indeed, it might well be their very coyness that makes it so difficult to look away from them.ДЄlas, all such traits also make the works awfully difficult to photograph in any way that renders much of how surprisingly they become arresting.В So youвЂ™re forgiven if you canвЂ™t quite discern from images just how cagily captivating they are when viewed in the real. Very subtle, very discreet are the charms in RaguГ©nГЁsвЂ™s very subtly, very discreetly colorful, vibrant works. Photos by Paul DвЂ™AgostinoДЄnother show that closed a week or so ago, and which also operated in splendidly curiosity-stoking ways, was вЂњTimeвЂ™s Wan Wave,вЂќ a winning two-room spread of new, substantially whispery but also rather visually deep paintings byВ LoГЇc RaguГ©nГЁs. Curated by Zuriel Waters and Steve Mykietyn.

It closed a week or so ago, but вЂ™twas quite a good one. This is just a sampling of the many curiosity-stoking works in вЂњLate Winter,вЂќ a big group show at Orgy Park. One in particular almost certainly features, in my eyes, a looming demon - or looming demons - on a moonless night. In Annie EwaskioвЂs two paintings featured here, meanwhile, we find interruptions in ruptured darknesses -В dispersed among many another mysterious presence.ДЄ 180-degree turn in the space would have one peering into some yet deeper, yet darker, ostensibly more fathomless, more ethereal mysteries in the works by Vlad Smolkin. Surreal, painstakingly painted, carefully internally contained, the three vertical registers in Luke OвЂ™HalloranвЂs appear unified by unchained melodies of time, money and atmospherics. Curated by a duo going by the вЂnameвЂ™ XP ( Photos by Paul DвЂ™Agostino Seeing the rooms in tandem is like being dropped in some nicely mysterious nook on Krypton and having no idea why. Entering LamsomвЂ™s room alone is like stumbling into an abandoned research lab in a yearless future. Rather than necessarily site-specific or sonic, the active state of William LamsomвЂs installation in the adjacent gallery is like that of a shimmering, gradually phase-changing antechamber to DrozdвЂ™s comparative cavern they scan instantly as visually coherent in many satisfying and still individualizable ways. ItвЂ™s a tough but fun knot to look at and into, and listen closely to, to begin to untie just how it works with totality and relative simplicity, though not in ways simplistic in the least. It both looks and sounds like a veritable spatial knot of brilliantly site-specific polyphonia involving significant degrees of multidisciplinarity, multimateriality and strata within circumstantial strata of shadow-play. Wonderfully striking in bright luminosities, diagonal analogousness, situational room-to-room parallels, transporting suggestiveness and subtly warmed circumstantial frigidities are the two installations вЂcontained,вЂ™ in a way, by вЂњA Continuous Stream of Occurrence,вЂќ an exhibition that opened a few weeks ago at Maspeth gem The Knockdown Center.

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