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| Cladis’ technically skilled multimedia
installation, MAD, brilliantly illuminates the agony, drama and destruction lurking
behind Olympian windows. In Deterrence, vertical mesh barriers provide
a shield through which hostile acrylic arrows scrutinize each other. Opportunity
emerges when a window breaks, spraying purple, red and mauve acrylic shards
to the ground. Attack! A 3D acrylic missile targets glued concentric
jute sheets. Confusion. Double Cross: an oval window slams open between sedate, dirty chiffon curtains. Nothing is what it appears to be.
A black cross cut from the canvas masks a white alias; its open wound
as blank as the oval window. Reality is torn, shifted and replaced with nothing. In
Retaliation, a small aging tree stump, with its badge of many rings,
furiously hurls through space leaving deep grooves in its wake. MAD,
Mutually Assured Destruction: an empty broken window with its litter
of broken acrylic shards. Epilogue. Atomic Dust at Dawn: many, many
tiny stitches reattach the torn luminous horizon to a black sky raining
random streams of hope.
I. von Chaillot
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| G.
H. Cladis
Fine Arts Housing 105 Hudson Street New York, NY 10013 |