April 14, 2010

Blog Post #3: Born rich or never (Carlo Zeitschel Party Tmrw! :) who's coming? scroll down for info)

I heard rumors among friends about that Born Rich movie about Carlo, but was it a surprise when we had to watch it through the coursework!  I didn't think the movie was an exceptional one, the idea and access to reach people being the greatest achievements of it. It showed a bunch of bored kids, so disgustingly worthless and at the same time full of themselves, stuck in their limited world, where self-expression and development are rarely an issue. As i personally know Carlo, I know he has a decent taste for art and enjoys running his underground art-gallery in SoHo. He has a twisted sense of humor and is over all a pleasant and open young gentleman, into sports, into fashionable in Europe techno music and passionate about his art project. Him, and maybe lil miss Bloomberg, who is cute for her love for horses, are the only ones who were pleasant to see. The other ones got stuck in their rich soapy bubble, confused about their lives, talking about how different they are but not really saying anything worth attention!
On the other hand, Mike from Stud Terkel's "Working" - is he an attractive character? A factory worker with a tough life, he has to go to the tavern to drink out his stress, looking for a rude excuse to let that punch out of himself. Not happy about what he's doing and unable to change anything in his life, all he wants from his kid is to step one level higher on the social ladder, gradate from the college and make one of those snobs.
Both the movie and the article prove the economic mobility being a myth in the USA. Well, only downwards is it easy to go, into depths of debt, into poverty and bankruptcy. The path up is tough and steep, and many doors lack the keys. The higher the class, the more impossible to make your way in it (the daughter of Tiger Woods, so called "new money", witnesses that she is being observed and judged by everyone in South Hamptons as a "newbe" and is afraid to do anything wrong to be looked down on from her new neighbors)



YANNA SOARES | DRIFTWOOD

OPENING / THURSDAY APRIL 15, 2010
9PM UNTIL LATE

DJ JULIO (SHEIK 'N' BEIK)

CVZ CONTEMPORARY
SAFE HARBOR
446 BROADWAY 3RD FLOOR
B/T GRAND & HOWARD STREETS
NEW YORK, NY 10013

FREE ADMISSION

DRIFTWOOD
APRIL 15 - JUNE 15

For her first solo show at CVZ Contemporary, Brazilian artist Yanna Soares presents Driftwood, an installation consisting of 31 squares of silk-screened plexiglass. The artist creates an intimate nautical fantasy which is punctuated by waves suggesting how all our lives are affected by tides and currents, The work is deliberately fragmented and includes a number of close-ups of human features brushed by undulations and beaches. Soares' work consists of experimenting with unconventional surfaces and embracing the complexities of printmaking, which involve contrasting references in order to intuitively give them order.

The artist is fascinated by her native Brazil and her relationship to her country as a sensory and aesthetic experience. Her work is permeated with Brazilianisms, either through her investigations of the country's colonial past or through her own observations of her life in the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The dissemination of images and the meditative quality of repeating and accumulating that can only be produced through printmaking is what most defines her work.

* Individual panels and compositions will be sold by silent auction (Bids start at $100), portion of the proceeds will go to local Brazilian charities selected by the Artist.

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