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« L'histoire a beau prétendre nous raconter toujours du nouveau, elle
est comme le kaléidoscope : chaque tour nous présente une configuration
nouvelle, et cependant ce sont, à dire vrai, les mêmes éléments qui
passent toujours sous nos yeux. »
« History may claim to always tell us of the new, while like a kaleidoscope, every tour reveals a changed configuration, but it is truly the same elements, always, passing under our gazing eyes. »
Artist Cassandra C. Jones
Opening Reception September 4, 5-10pm.
BRX - Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
172 Minna Street @ SF MOMA. San Francisco, CA.
Un, deux, trois, for the American Anthem.
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In the land of Mayans and Aztecs, far hidden in the Sierra Madre's jungle, populated with exotic creatures such as
flamingos and boa constrictors, sparkles a gem, a unique sculpture garden, with haciendas, temples, pagodas and fountains, erupted under the spell and imagination of an eccentric English millionaire."Look, we move among a bunch of 'pseudo-realists',
who produce nothing but junk.
So, they try to act like madmen to justify themselves.
On the other hand, you who are real labor to act sane".
Salvador Dali to Edward James.
Edward James, was a British aristocrat, who loved surrealist art and as a collector, did commission and support artists such as
Dali and Magritte, financed "Minotaure", a lavish Surrealist magazine published in Paris, or a series of Balanchine productions ; while entertaining at Monkton House, on a large sofa to which Dalí gave the form and colour of Mae
West's lips, Picasso, Stravinsky, kurt Weill,
Brecht, Aldous Huxley or Man Ray... While war was raging, he left Europe in 1940, via The United States and then to
Cuernavaca, in Mexico. Mesmerized by a land in Xilitla "Lieu où l'on trouve des escargots", a lush tropical oasis of natural lagoons, Las Pozas, he began cultivating thousands of orchids with the help of a Yaqui indian, Plutarco Gastelum Esquer, before dedicate , with Carmelo Munoz Camacho in building a "château", his thébaÏde, projecting his architectural fantasies of an architect, poet, artist, who, In the 1970s, sold the world's largest and most important collection of Surrealist art to fund the garden. Surrealistic.
Edward James by René Magritte, La Reproduction Interdite (1937).
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Sigur Ròs live at MOMA New York.
While searching to cyber-google into a retrofuturistic universe, I stumbled like a gawker in a retropolis Utopia fancy through an hyperspace, for an interstellar travel. I experienced a faster-than-light journey where science, technology, architecture and memories filled my satiaty for the gourmandise of time dilatation. Now it's your turn to full speed gear up to this nerd-fest!... Illustration Roy Doty
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
Poem J.R.R. Tolkien