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Orensanz 2008: The Far Reaches of SpaceMarch 27th – March 30th, 2008
Various locations in New York City
DAY 1. The mobil art installation conceived by Angel Orensanz and curated by Jan Van Woensel and Greggory Bradford has run today a predefined itinerary through the art crowded time and space of Manhattan. It was launched shortly after midday from the doors of the Angel Orensanz Foundation in Lower Manhattan; to move swiftly to Fifth Avenue and 36 St. to the Volta Art Fair. Then it bounced Northwest to the piers over the Hudson into the Armory Art Fair. To then take a sudden turn Southwest to the Chelsea Art Museum, the stage for a great video art display. People have approached the moving silvery shuttle first with curiosity and then in a participatory mode: taking seats inside the shuttle to watch a pure Orensanz burning universe of video black holes and wall displays; then joining in a choreography of movement and poetry, instigated by the crew of the shuttle itself.
Day One video (Thursday, March 27)
Friday’s itinerary covers Studio Museum in Harlem, The Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (site of The Garden before the Snake, a public art installation of Orensanz , the Whitney Museum and the Armory and the Pulse Art Fairs. Please dial Zoi (646) 708-1738 for constant updates of the itinerary of the shuttle.
Reviews
A respected artist for more than 40 years, Orensanz has produced a body of work ranging from large abstract sculptures with humanist overtones to a series of conceptual installations and performances that whimsically address social and geopolitical conflict. The latter works invoke his own brand of pacifism and an idiosyncratic vision of a multicultural, interdependent world community. (Calvin Reid in Art in America)
Angel Orensanz’s Art: The poetics of Performance
By David H. Katz
The Retrospective of Orensanz Bronze Sculptures at the MoMa Wales reviewed in London's Galleries
LOS ORENSANZ DE ORENSANZ, by Eva Garcia in El Periodico de Aragon