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Quantum Circus
Wednesday 20 December @ 19:47:41 |
 by CHRISTOPHER KOZA
Hurry, hurry, hurry. Scurry! There are only a few days left to see Quantum Circus at Soo Visual Arts Gallery. New York artist Michael Zansky and Minneapolis artist and 2005 Jerome Fellowship recipient Andrea Stanislav combine forces to reveal a stunning installation touching on topics such as freaks and evolution. These are ambitious and weighty artists whose individual careers include cinema, commercial applications, and shows in international galleries and museums.
Quantum Circus, the first collaboration for the two artists, is a disturbing reverie that combines nature’s determined creations, the minds of humanity and the mutating menacing hands of art. The style and subject matter of these two American-born artists, whose studios were conincidentally located in the same New York City building, require only a slight stretch to reach a resounding collaboration.
Zansky, whose skills have been utilized in big budget Hollywood films such as “Fatal Attraction” and the cult television series “The Sopranos,” obviously applies his cinematic scope to the nature of his work. His art defies categorical definition of either installation or object, though it doesn't reside only in fantasy. In addition to sculptural pieces, Zansky also presents two-dimensional works.
“The Sick Man of Europe” is one in a group of portraits where mercury dripping eyes invade the viewers’ space like the quicksand fury of a madman’s hallucination. These killers in position of power are portraits of sickness, but in an indirect way, Zansky’s work suggests these atrocious phenomenon are a part of the process, like a natural wildfire clearing thousands of acres of forest because something new must develop.
Stanislav, who moonlights as a professor of art at the University of Minnesota, has exhibited in galleries across the United States, and internationally in places like Barcelona, Northern Ireland and Korea, among others. Her work is as much a designer’s as that of a sculptor. There is the precision of design with the humanity and presence of the artist’s hand found in sculpture, and the work in Quantum Circus shows her versatility in mediums.
There are fun moments in Quantum Circus, where the art gallery is transformed into a moving, churning, emotional avalanche where a whisper threatens the balance.
The range of material and concepts here is wide, yet focused. The general sense running through the exhibit is that to embrace reality is to reconcile unpleasant details and find ways to at least acknowledge the unknown without necessarily having to make sense of it. ||
Quantum Circus runs through Dec. 24 at Soo Visual Arts Center, 2640 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. The gallery is open Wed.–Fri. noon–6 p.m. and Sat. noon–4 p.m. Go to soovac.org for more information.
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