o Nutria NN: julio 2007l

viernes, julio 20, 2007

"Daniel Lopez Show" in The Village Voice (Best in Show)







Best in Show
The Waiting Game
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
by R.C. Baker
June 20th, 2007 3:08 PM

'Daniel Lopez'

Cribbing its title from a pseudonym that the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet used to hide his thievery, this lively show of Chilean artists pushes a number of emotional buttons. The four heads of a uniformed junta painted on the wall have been replaced with convex security mirrors that reflect your every move; elsewhere, an embalmed white rat has been stretched over a microphone, perhaps a metaphor about insidious propaganda, but undoubtedly a hilariously creepy sculpture. And Iván Navarro's video, Homeless lamp, the juice sucker (2005) must not be missed. A guitar strums and a sad song in Spanish [by Nutria N.N.] commences as two young men trudge through Chelsea pushing a shopping cart fabricated from fluorescent tubes. They scrape weeds away from the bases of street lamps, unscrew access plates, and jury-rig outlets to light up their "homeless lamp." The lovely melody continues as one subtitled phrase—"Emiliano Zapata once shouted/'I want land and freedom!'/and the government laughed/as they buried him"—scrolls across a shot of the glowing cart in front of steel security gates and dumpsters; expensive cars and designer stores provide visual dissonance. Still, the cart itself sits in the gallery, a truly odd and beautiful object, reminding us that art, whatever else it may be, is the ultimate luxury good. Oh well. White Box, 525 W 26th, 212-714-2347.


martes, julio 10, 2007

Nutria N.N. accoustic @ Piano's. (Lower East Side, NYC)



Foto Yvonne Gonzalez