Rev your engines and strap on your gasmask, Aaron Young is uptown
September 18th, 2007
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AO got inside the exclusive 500-invitee motorcycle performance last night at the Park Avenue Armory. The full size arena-like open space was covered with 288 panels, layered seven times with neon paint and a topcoat of rubber. The stunt riders created burnouts on the surfaces with donuts and paths choreographed by artist Aaron Young. The audience was provided with gas masks to avoid the exhaust during the seven-minute performance, and the sound of screeching tires and whirring engines was an overload for the senses. Photos of the event after the jump.
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Young’s more concise work gives off a slightly “rockstar” vibe evoking black, shiny, metal, and gears grinding in the vein of Jutta Koether. But his strongest work is large conceptual installations, often occurring within a limited period of time. Young was exhibited at Miami Basel last December; a shipping crate was pierced with a small hole while tons of sand was continuously piled on top of it, creating an ever increasing mountain of sand, a human scale hourglass.
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The Art Production Fund coordinated the event, co-directed by Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen. They found sponsors Sotheby’s and Tom Ford. It was truly an art world heavyweight event, with attendees such as fashion designer Ben Cho, Spencer Sweeney, Janey Southington from Saatchi, Peter Grant and Stephanie Seymour, R&B star Usher, photographer Todd Eberle, David Rimanelli from ArtForum, Klaus Biesenbach from MoMA, Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch of Deitch Projects, actress Chloe Sevigny, critic Jerry Saltz… just to name a few.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:23 am
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