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Queen’s Nails

February 11 - March 14, 2010

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http://www.queensnailsprojects.com/

3191 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110

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ARTEMIO

Opening and Reception on Thursday, February 11th, 7:00-11:00 p.m. Free and open to the public Queens Nails Projects is pleased to present a new installation by the Mexico City conceptual artist, ARTEMIO along with a video by New York based Frankie Martin. ARTEMIO’s work speaks to the extreme wealth and violence of the drug trade and the complex cultural reality, which it creates. Gesamtkunstwerk is an installation of contemporary mandala imagery that offers a distilled mirror image of an apolitical revolution brought on by violence and an apathetic public’s willingness to be consumed and dazzled by it. In ARTEMIO’s mandala works, guns, grenades, bombs, and machetes assemble themselves in an ornate and impeccable order as a paradox of fascination and repulsion. The work offers insight into a culture of violence that appears anarchist, but is clearly not without order. This installation of ARTEMIO’s work is organized in conjunction with Galería de la Raza who will simultaneously present the artist’s Hollywoodpedia, an installation comprised of 120 videos that act as an audiovisual encyclopedia of the human condition as represented by Hollywood. Hollywoodpedia will be on view at Galería de la Raza February 6th- April 17th. Queens Nails Projects will also exhibit Through the Vortex, a new video work by the nomadic inter-media artist Frankie Martin. Martin’s focus is on experiential art, such as comedic dance, light, minimalist writing, sound and video. Her work inspires laughing out loud, self-analysis, and critical consciousness; it opens the door to a radical re-thinking of how cultural reality is constructed. Through the Vortex takes the viewer along the inner journey of her one thousand mile, California coastal bicycle trip of July 2009. The video uses a symbiotic mixture of the ancient and the contemporary, creating an atmosphere of timelessness. An audio edition entitled Who Died? will be available during the exhibition. ARTEMIO is a multimedia artist whose practice spans video, sculpture and painting. Through the appropriation and reinterpretation of pop cultural elements and icons, he seeks to juxtapose a wide range of concepts including love, war, audience, kitsch and repulsion. Over the last two years alone, he has had individual exhibitions in Bogota, Lima, Mexico City, Guadalajara, New York, and London, and his work has been featured in group exhibitions in Moscow, Sydney, Havana, Miami, and Seoul. Artemio is currently the recipient of the prestigious FONCA Jóvenes Creadores grant and Mexico's El Universal calls him one of the 17 most relevant living artists in Mexico. Frankie Martin is currently writing a book of creative non-fiction, creating video paintings, participating in House Plants and Coma Club (Public Access TV shows in New York and Massachusetts) and leading an inspiration management group called The Hands of Light. You are cordially invited to join at www.frankiefeverforever.com. Queen’s Nails Projects (QNP) is a curatorial platform dedicated to presenting collaborative, site-specific, and experimental projects by both artists and independent curators. QNP aims to challenge both emerging and established cultural producers to work outside their normal practice in order to produce new and unique projects. For more information please visit www.QueensNailsProjects.com Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. or by appointment

Frankie Martin, Through the Vortex, 2009