MinerAlert
MinerAlert
L Gallery
October 8th - December 12th, 2009
Ruben Verdu’s Continuum series records uninterrupted movement. The artist standed perfectly still spraying a focused jet of liquid pigment as the canvas progressed past him. Verdu’s immobility negated the emotive, full-body strokes of the action painters of the 1950s and opened up the possibilities for the painting process. Self-Inflicted is a photographic self-portrait of Verdu with a bloody nose. He is expressionless, unresponsive to the pain. A red, plastic clown’s nose hovered miraculously in front of a mirror on the other side of the room. Verdu had peeled away his mask, revealed the charade. The artist as machine and the stoicism of stereotypical masculinity are the two ideas that linked the works in this exhibition.
Ruben Verdu (b. 1962, Caracas, Venezuela) B.F.A. UTEP 1993, MFA California Institute of the Arts 1995, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, currently resides in Barcelona, Spain. This exhibition includes artwork from a variety of media from the mid-1990s to the present.
