Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc.
524 West 19th Street, 212-807-9494
Chelsea
November 10 - December 23, 2010
Reception: Wednesday, November 10, 6 - 8 PM
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Gasser Grunert is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Blair Thurman, “Aus unseren Kellern” (From Our Cellars) from November 10th to December 27th.
Blair Thurman, a ‘Pop’ sensitive, and his work, a haphazard reclaiming of the ‘Look of Cool’. His method is gaze and memory rather than cold analysis. More like the free associations of a Beat poet on the road, happening upon Gonzo situations and structures, awash in neon, remembering a childhood of Hot-Wheels and model-glue, suspended in a haze of martinis, coffee, pain-killers, anti-histamine and Thera-Flu. [...] The aesthetics of punk underground trash… a tube of Testors in each nostril… hurtling through space. The loner as Silver Surfer confronting the post-punk existential. For me the creature is our dark nature… our subjective selves. The dark self on the road to nowhere. -Steven Parrino, 2003
Thurman has exhibited widely in Europe and is known for his large neon-installations and paintings on shaped canvases and wood.