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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER EXHIBITION

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work is featured in two spaces in New York this fall. An outdoor installation at Madison Square Park is being shown simultaneously with two indoor works at Bitforms Gallery. I visited the Bitforms show as part of a series of gallery visits in the Chelsea neighborhood on a windy, chilly November Saturday.

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Less than Three, 2008. Photo: John Berens

The first installation in the show was an interactive wall sculpture resembling a telephone cable patch bay and a network diagram built in the manner of a prototype. It featured two intercommunicators at either end. As you pressed a button and spoke into the intercom, the piece would generate a series of light patterns resembling network hops. This pattern of lighted cables would eventually make their way to the speaker at the other end and play back whatever sound you made a few minutes earlier.

Rafael Lozano Hemmer Exhibition
Wavefunction, 2007. Photo: John Berens

The second piece took up most of the small gallery space. It was an array of white plastic seats that would interpret your movements in the surrounding space and raise or lower the chairs in a manner resembling ocean waves. It was able to detect your movement by video tracking and some motion analysis software that was displayed on two small screens next to this piece.

After visiting the show and knowing Lozano-Hemmer’s previous work, it was hard to be impressed by these new works. They were rather uninspiring and gimmicky, and we ended seeing better art that cold day in other galleries in the area, such as a series of black and white photo portraits by Richard Avedon at Pace Wildenstein.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Exhibition
Date: October 25th – November 29th, 2008
Place: Bitforms Gallery
Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00-18:00
Address: 529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212 366 6939

Text: Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena from Med44
Photo: John Berens

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