JUAN BETANCURTH @ BAXTER ST at CCNY

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JUAN BETANCURTH @ BAXTER ST at CCNY

December 25th, 2014 by fstop

JUAN BETANCURTH
All of this is made for you
December 12 – January 3, 2015

For All of this is made for you, Juan Betancurth will present a selection of objects and photographs as well as work from a new series, Bouquet at 25, realized in collaboration with performer Aaron Philip and photographer Benjamin Fredrickson. This recent body of work investigates flowers and their specific capacity for exaltation or mourning. Considered through collage, performance and photography, the floral characters invoke the artist’s own Colombian roots and the rituals invested within them. The new work signals the artist’s departure from tradition into more ambiguous terrain. Both tender and dark, like many of the objects in the room, the images from Bouquet at 25 reveal the results of a playful seduction taken almost to sadistic limits. In this triad scenario, Betancurth suggests a flexibility with control and trust, as well as with collaboration and ownership, which for the artist is a material as well.

Baxter St at the Camera Club of NY | 126 Baxter Street | New York | NY | 10013

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