Untitled 2008

David Montano
Gestures 10: Illustrations of Catastrophe and Remote Times, January 18 – June 15, 2008
Materials
mixed media, recorded music

An artist who works primarily in mixed-media collages and painting David Montano has created a quiet experiential installation He covered the walls with red...

Description

An artist who works primarily in mixed-media collages and painting, David Montano has created a quiet, experiential installation. He covered the walls with red crayon scribbles and then overlaid an opaque veil of dripping white paint. A fan gently blows through the space and onto three large swatches of white fabric, affixed to the ceiling and trailing in wedding-like trains along the floor, while music plays from the elevated speaker. Here the experience is one of ephemerality and perhaps even quietly contained chaos: a bubbling apocalypse just beneath the surface, held at bay by the calmness of wind, the soothing upbeat music, and the gently swaying cloths.

 

Curated by Heather Pesanti