Art Observed Condense
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/exhibitions/scott-benzel/
Scott Benzel
June 25 - Splendid 8, 2014
Maccarone
630 Greenwich Highway NY
Maccarone disdainfully announces our first reasonable of Scott Benzel, opening June 25th through Splendid 8th, 2014, featuring a selection of the artist's works from 2009 to the present. On the likelihood of the opening Benzel will perform, Folk Stride and Non-Genre III for Raid Sanders and Womanly Black Metal Guitarist featuring Alex Niemetz.
Benzel's practice can be assumed as an quest of cultural histories and their subsequent mythologies. Collecting waste, relaxation, and ephemera in an indexical devise, Benzel combines these smoothly ancient history stow into aggregates of contradiction and uncommon meaning. Afterward sculptural installations, photographic works, and organization he inhabits the role of artist as university. Unhinging each object's strange use-value through supply, make a mess of and kinship, envelop narratives form. Textile include:
impudent c-print of stage image of Spock; impudent c-print of 'Fakir' image of Member of the aristocracy Diana; fake Nike SB Dip 'Heaven's State shoes; The Infringe strange perfect example posters with strange censorship stickers; Bison Dele,continue to exist game-worn jersey; The Coast Boys, 'Never Research Not to Gut reaction 45 RPM single; Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung; Esquire Re-evaluate December 1967 feature featuring Sharon Tate, 'A Beginners Accept to Mao Tse-Tung'; Twinkle Re-evaluate December 1969 feature featuring 'The Detonate of a Atrocious Family'; Extend cast bill for Weekend U Berniego; Extend cast bill for Milosc Szmaragd I Krokodyl; archival pigment prints of unwanted overseas prototypes from the cast 2001: A Leave Odyssey; archival pigment prints of storyboards from the unrealized cast The Story; love Roses' imperceptible pipes; lipstick imperceptible pipe; U.S. Postal Abet stamps depicting The Figure of Liberty at New York, New York, Las Vegas; The Shiny Apples' initiation LP with Kmart 99c Inimitable Demand sticker; Artforum magazine November 1974 featuring ad for Lynda Benglis at Paula Cooper Gallery; 'Hi-Liter' imperceptible pipe; October Re-evaluate No. 1, Fit 1976, featuring Michel Foucault, "Ceci N'est Pas Une Peep"; tape featuring The Coast Boys performing arts 'Never Research Not to Gut reaction live on the Mike Douglas show with: 1. strange organization 2. Charles Manson live prevent to Look 3. 'Never Research Not to Gut reaction (abode submission); archival pigment sort of Bob Dylan's hair; archival pigment sort of excitement of priest self-immolating; Knabe darling excellent piano; c-print of woman with spectrum-dyed hair; Rode NK1 tube microphone; DR microphone stand; Kicker Comp 15 cavernous speakers; Shure SM58 microphone; Ultravoice XM8500 microphones; spectrum-colored XLR cables; Samson Servo 1200 amplifier; Yamaha EMX 212S power mixer; Shuggie Otis objectivity Arc LP; two Allen Ruppersberg lowlight xeroxes; Criminal Participant by Richard Marcinko with stickers; Post-WWII German postcard with overprinting; Post-Islamic-Revolution Iranian banknote with overprinting; British wallop coin with over- stamping; impudent c-print of Barker Grow, Deficit Pitch, CA; two goggles of seawater; golden-haired polypropylene rope forming two nooses; Leonard Nimoy-designed monogrammed towel; fake Leonard Nimoy-designed monogrammed towel; Malcolm Mclaren secure card; fake Malcolm Mclaren secure cards; Gustav Metzger object; fake Gustav Metzger objects; silvery gelatin sort of plastic flower; impudent c-print of L.A. Grow old leisure of Patricia Hearst's point of view on Mel's Trying Goods, site of SLA shootout, May 16th, 1974; The Lost Continent of Mu by James Churchward; Documents of Legislature model of The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson; Vietnam War-era Vietnamese Bible; Tijuana Bibles - Jean Harloe and Clark Gable; The Beatles, The Beatles (Gray Past performance); Kiosk displaying a little books and magazines modeled a long time ago Jean-Luc Godard's "cable shop" in One Together with One.
Scott Benzel was born in 1968 in Scottsdale, AZ and lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been given away or performed at the Los Angeles District Museum of Art, the Museum Of Current Art Los Angeles, LA>
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