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Best in Show
Best in Show Recommendations by R.C. Baker Hubert Dobler Jack the Pelican Presents 487 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn Through July 2 Gasoline Alley In an
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14 Jun, 2006
Best in Show
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
Hubert Dobler
Jack the Pelican Presents
487 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn
Through July 2
Gasoline Alley
In an endlessly looping video, a driver-less motorcycle bucks and roars like an enraged bull, its handlebars chained to the flaking concrete ceiling of an abandoned industrial loft. As the chains grow taut it clumsily pirouettes, the engine kicking into a deafening whine while the bike briefly becomes airborne before crashing down, the madly spinning rear wheel spitting out debris like shrapnel. In the gallery itself, the floor is covered with entwined skid marks-some scorched deep into the plywood-made when this Austrian artist snaked his Honda through the long, narrow space, occasionally stuttering up the walls to create ersatz wain-scoting. Like Pollock, whose empathetic gestures are frozen in the graceful arcs of his drip paintings, Dobler has captured his own movements through time and space, eschewing paint in favor of jerry cans of fuel and a gas mask for protection from clouds of burning rubber.
ILLUSTRATIONS
The wheel world
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Recommendations by R.C. Baker
Hubert Dobler
Jack the Pelican Presents
487 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn
Through July 2
Gasoline Alley
In an endlessly looping video, a driver-less motorcycle bucks and roars like an enraged bull, its handlebars chained to the flaking concrete ceiling of an abandoned industrial loft. As the chains grow taut it clumsily pirouettes, the engine kicking into a deafening whine while the bike briefly becomes airborne before crashing down, the madly spinning rear wheel spitting out debris like shrapnel. In the gallery itself, the floor is covered with entwined skid marks-some scorched deep into the plywood-made when this Austrian artist snaked his Honda through the long, narrow space, occasionally stuttering up the walls to create ersatz wain-scoting. Like Pollock, whose empathetic gestures are frozen in the graceful arcs of his drip paintings, Dobler has captured his own movements through time and space, eschewing paint in favor of jerry cans of fuel and a gas mask for protection from clouds of burning rubber.
ILLUSTRATIONS
The wheel world
COPYRIGHT: Copyright Village Voice Jun 14-Jun 20, 2006. Provided by Proquest- CSA, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Only fair use as provided by the United States copyright law is permitted.
PROQUEST-CSA, LLC- MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE LICENSED MATERIALS OR ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
