[alliedbulk] Big Bronze Statues @ Le Petit Versailles <July 1 - 31>

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For immediate release.

Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston St.  @ Avenue  C
petitversailles at earthlink.net        http:// 
www.lpvtv.blogspot.com       212 529 8815
Subway: F/V- Second Ave. -  J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

Petit Versailles presents
BIg Bronze Statues by Cyriaco Lopez
July 1 - 31

Visiting Hours: Thursday - Sunday > 2 - 7pm.



Big Bronze Statues.

A project by Cyriaco Lopes with the collaboration of poet Terri Witek  
at Le Petit Versailles, NYC, July 2009.


If you find a forgotten letter in the garden, take it.  It is yours.   
It was written for you.


Everyday I will send a letter to the garden, which will be left in an  
inconspicuous place.  The community will be free to open, read, and  
take them home. Otherwise they will just perish with the elements. It  
is an ephemeral, almost invisible piece.

Each letter will be signed by a famous historical or fictional gay  
person. Some will be actual quotations (Michelangelo, Sappho,  
Shakespeare poems), others will be imagined (Alexander the Great,  
Alice Toklas, Socrates). Some will contain drawings, photographs, and  
some will be written by poet Terri Witek.

An anachronistic way of communication to voice repressed history and  
longing: a monument, a memorial, a gift, a bridge between the  
anonymity of the urban experience and the intimacy of a love letter.

Click here for some images of the project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9842756@N02/sets/72157618693335388/show/


Biographical information:

In the past few years Lopes’ work has been seen in the United States  
at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, at El Museo del Barrio,  
ApexArt and the America’s Society in New York, at the Contemporary Art  
Museum in Saint Louis, among other venues.  In the same period his  
work was also seen in France, Germany, Poland, Chile and Portugal. In  
his native Brazil the artist has shown at the National Museum of Fine  
Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of Salvador, and the Museum of Art of  
São Paulo (MASP), among other institutions.  His work was curated into  
exhibitions by artists such as Janine Antoni, Luciano Fabro, Ryan  
Trecartin and Lygia Pape, as well as by curators such as Paulo  
Herkenhoff.  Lopes was the winner of the Worldstudio AIGA and RTKL  
awards, the Contemporary Art Museum Project award (Saint Louis), the  
Stetson/Hand Award, and the Prêmio Phillips of trip to Paris.

www.cyriacolopes.com


U.S. Poet Terri Witek’s publications include The Shipwreck Dress   
(Orchises Press, 2008—Florida Book Award Winner)  Carnal World (Story  
Line Press, 2006), Fools and Crows (Orchises Press, 2003), Courting  
Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest) and  Robert  
Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self (University of Missouri  
Press, 1993). A recipient of fellowships from the Hawthorndon  
International Writers’ Institute, the MacDowell Colony, and the state  
of Florida, she holds the Art and Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative  
Writing and directs the Sullivan Creative Writing Program at Stetson  
University.


The collaborations of the artist and the poet will be reunited for the  
fist time in the exhibition “but here all dreams equal distance” at  
the Faulconer Gallery in 2010.

http://cyriacolopes.com/collaboration/html/collaboration.html




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