On February 14, 2014, at 7 PM, RCI New York will open the sculpture exhibit “Domestic Ceremonial Artifacts from the Lower Hudson Valley” - works by Sasha Meret, a highly regarded artist of Romanian origin.
The exhibit focuses on sculpture and assemblage works in metal, plastic and wood, from 2012-2013. Most of the works have been featured already in collective exhibits at New York Armory Week, Art Hampton, Art Week San Francisco, Art Basel Miami Week and Barbarian Art in Zurich.
The exhibit will be curated by Allan Graubard (writer and art critic), Tod Thilleman (writer, editor and art critic), and Doina Uricariu (writer and director of RCI New York).
Without being an exhaustive retrospective, the exhibit shows the directions towards the art of Sasha Meret has evolved. He currently lives and works in NYC and has exhibits in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Meret's recent work applies a wide range of techniques that interact with genres such as fashion, science, essay and film.
On my first visit at The Metropolitan Museum in New York I was mesmerized by The Primitive Art wing. The vitality, the power of expression, the humor were only a few of the many ingredients that make this kind of art endure time. Viewing those magical exhibits made me have the immediate impulse to create something similar, with the same power of captivating the viewer. But of course one doesn't just start doing primitive art and almost three decades had to pass until I could say that I may be closer to achieving a similar result. The new series whimsically entitled "Domestic Ceremonial Artifacts from the Lower Hudson Valley at the turn of the XXI century" explores the realm of magic and beauty of every-day objects and shapes that surround us ingloriously, but in which I intuitively confided choosing them as a kind ideograms of a language that would describe aspects of the spirituality of our age.
Sasha Meret
