Nice & Fit gallery


THE NEW BAROQUE Anton Stoianov, Nate Peter, Jan Bünnig, Fawn Krieger, Simon Rühle, Ralf Dereich, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Frederic D. opening reception: Friday, November 24, 7 pm Baroque’s inventions (17th century) include multiple viewpoints, waves coming from the East, from Greece, Rome, Classical (modern), Goth, the Romanesque (11th-12th century). Material excess, individualism, religious ecstasy, big hair, curves, the collapse of the frame, repetition ad infinitum, counterpoint, contraposto are also invoked. Allegory, illusion, theater, mechanics, façade/interior, also. the new baroque? A tail without the cat, Babylon (Iraq), Tiepolo, tape, Grace Jones, wings, forest, Penthouse, unorthodoxy, anarchy, ascension and descension. “The baroque artist knows well that hallucination does not feign presence, but that presence is hallucination”, (Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque”, 1993.)