Arrested Motion reports the latest solo show by Chicago artist DZINE entitled, “Voodoo,” on view at NYC’s Leo Koenig Projekte. “The exhibition includes one of the artists’ amazing custom bicycle sculptures, as well as a video installation, sculptural drawings and photographs—each inspired by and partially produced on the Dutch Island of Curacao during his residency at the Instituto Bena Bista Curacao Center for Contemporary Art.”
From the gallery -
Sifting through the rituals of faith, youth culture, folklore, and urban style, Dzine has created works that contextualizes these diverse elements into a vernacular of contemporary aesthetics. Each piece is inspired by, and partially produced on, the Dutch Island of Curacao during Dzine’s residency at the Instituto Bena Bista, the Curacao Center for Contemporary Art. The presentation utilizes a number of mediums to capture the spirit of Szwaybar, a phenomenon that is unique to the youth of Curacao, and never previously documented or viewed outside the Island. The Szwaybar bicycle comes from the “Szway” motorbike, these are motorbikes that are altered to extend into oddly shaped driving crafts. Since the youth cannot afford them, they simply try to copy the technique with a bicycle by memory. Some of the bicycles are used as their only means of transportation. However, recently, the youth who produce these custom bicycles use these creations as symbols of style, status and showmanship.
The exhibition will run for a month, through to December 4, 2010.
