By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Queue and Eh? Gondry Gallery Opening Baffles NY Art Blogger
I thought I was pretty much done with Michel Gondry, but Art Fag City blogger and vaunted Reeler Pinch Hitter Paddy Johnson yesterday filed a dispatch from the opening of the Gondry show The Science of Sleep; an exhibition of sculpture and pathological creepy little gifts at Deitch Projects. Maybe I missed something, but it sounds as though things could have gone better:
AFC had the good fortune of sharing the line with most of last year’s rejects from the failed Deitch-sponsored reality show Art Star, a fate only marginally removed from hell. Flanked by an artist with clown red hair and a tattoo that read “I am living art,” it didn’t take long before the words “this is for suckers” passed through my lips. And you know, thank God that thought occurred to me, because when I walked to the entrance to try and get a better look at how the line was moving, I saw that the gallery was only letting five to seven people at time into a sparsely populated gallery. Needless to say, I did not make it into the show and no Gondry spottings were made. I did however manage to take these crappy-ass photographs of the cardboard car in the window display, and document the four gallery goers inside the space. Oh yes, it was an evening of great tidings to be sure.
You mean the cardboard car from Science of Sleep? Hot! Indeed, Johnson has the photos to prove her mettle, but my hunch is she is not planning to return on a slower day for the $30 French calendar. Be that way, then! More for the rest of us.