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Paradise SyndromePosted In
ExhibitionDuration
21 October 2015 to 18 November 2015Venue
Puccio European Marble WorksOpening Hours
Open on weekends 2-6 PM and by appointment on week daysLocation
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Title | Paradise Syndrome | Posted In | Exhibition | Duration | 21 October 2015 to 18 November 2015 |
Venue | Puccio European Marble Works | Opening Hours | Open on weekends 2-6 PM and by appointment on week days | Location |
661 Driggs Ave. Brooklyn New York City, NY NY 11121
United States |
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In symphony with its subject, the exhibition achieves a sense of something frustratingly fleeting and unobtainable, as seen for example in the constant movement and morphing of Juan Fontanive’s motorised flipbook of exotic birds (“Ornithology I”, 2015) and the ever-shifting kaleidoscopic patterns in Alois Kronschlaeger’s “Multicolored Cube Configuration #2” (2015). Meanwhile, Mario Navarro’s assemblage “Marmor Isodomum” (2015) brings together a neat and well-organised collection of discarded marble pieces, as if the overlooked scraps and leftovers of luxurious objects that decorate opulent homes have come together to form a little utopia of their own. Across the bone-bare industrial room, Ishmael Randall Weeks’ untitled installation with live plants (2015) plays with futility and impermanence, since the artist has used the plants as stencils to spray paint on the white surface behind them. Traversing this twisted workshop of defeated happiness, one realises how our fabricated notion of ideal existence, our “Paradise”, is both chimaeric and, ironically, comical in its ambition.

Paradise Lost, 2015. Installation view. Courtesy PEANA Projects.
The exhibition “Paradise Syndrome” is the latest pop-up event from PEANA, a platform for contemporary Latin American and Spanish art founded by Ana Perez Escoto, and will remain on display at the former factory of “Puccio European Marble Works” till November 18, 2015. Participating artists include Silvina Arismendi, Adrian S. Bara, Aldo Chaparro, Juan Fontanive, Ricardo Gonzalez, Alois Kronschlaeger, Alberto Lopez, Norman Mooney, Mario Navarro, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Francisco Ugarte and Alexis Zambrano.

Paradise Lost, 2015. Installation view. Courtesy PEANA Projects.

Alexis Zambrano
Tissot's holiday at Glass House, 2015
Oil on Canvas
46 in. x 70 in. (117 cm x 178 cm).

Paradise Lost, 2015. Installation view. Courtesy PEANA Projects.

Paradise Lost, 2015. Installation view. Courtesy PEANA Projects.

Aldo Chaparro
This is / isn't Hapiness, 2014
Neon and acrylic box
39.37 in. x 47.24 in. x 2.7 in. (100 cm x 120 cm x 7 cm).
This work is a single acrylic box, on which the letters "n't" flash on and off, thus constantly changing the written phrase's meaning.

Paradise Lost, 2015. Installation view. Courtesy PEANA Projects.

Aldo Chaparro
Acero (Slate), 2014
Stainless steel and electrostatic paint
37 in. x 62 in. (93.98 cm x 157.48 cm).

Paradise Lost, 2015. Installation view. Courtesy PEANA Projects.

Norman Mooney
Wall Flower No. 5
Cast aluminum with white pigment, Ed. of 3
76 in. x 36 in. (193 cm x 91.4 cm).

Puccio European Marble Works III, 2015
Removed and reassembled objects from the space
Variable dimensions.

Mario Navarro
Marmor Isodomum, 2015
Found marble pieces, mirror Ed. 1/1
11.8 in x 8.6 in x 5.90 in (30 cm x 22 cm x 15 cm).

Francisco Ugarte
Untitled, 2015
Wooden structure, black paint and floor
11.98 x 13.48 ft (365 cm x 411 cm).

Mario Navarro
About meeting and converging I, 2015
Found materials (wood, aluminum) Ed. 1/1
24 in. x 36 in. (60 cm x 91.5 cm).

Silvina Arismendi
Lilac Spring, 2014
Stretcher Bars and plastic string
83.3 in (213 cm).

Alexis Zambrano
Untitled, 2015
Pysanky Ostrich Egg, bone puzzle sphere base, native american seedpot, african wood
base
19.7 in x 7.8 in x 20.5 in (50 cm x 20 cm x 52 cm).

Silvina Arismendi
Spears, 2015
Wood and plastic string
Variable Dimensions.

Silvina Arismendi
Spears, 2015
Wood and plastic string
Variable Dimensions.

Silvina Arismendi
Spears, 2015
Wood and plastic string
Variable Dimensions.