Flying in Nasa's Lab - An art installation by Angel Orensanz

For the last three week of the year 2003 Angel Orensanz has been locked at work in his studio in Downtown Manhattan. Most people have been wearily trapped in airports watching at uncertain flight monitors, and at home watching monitors that steadily deliver other planets' silence. Orensanz has invented a world of his own in the 50' high dome of his studio. It is a universe of swirling canvases, orbiting discs, cascading trees and flashing lights with encrypted Japanese messages.

In this work, Orensanz moves further his poetic of "Burning Universe", the six months month exhibition in Venice that closed a few weeks ago. That show, visited by over 60,000 people and with an unparalleled press and art critics' acclaim, is considered one of the top exhibitions of the Venetian season. Like in New York now, Orensanz combined ancient spaces with reconstructions of surrealist iconography, visual poetry and environmental angst. At the same time, "Burning Universe" and "New Year in Nasa's lab" convey a reserved cultural criticism of the frustrations and expectations of a generation that has been given mysterious and spectacular worlds to be finally treated to dried landscapes and rocky craters. A Matrix planet of intractable forces and results.

While finishing this installation, Orensanz was saying: "This is possible the task of the artist: to fly and to let other people fly, between a crude surrounding reality and another harsh reality beyond, while dreaming the dreams of our imagination".

At the OPENING RECEPTION:
on Thursday, January 15 between 7 and 11 pm among the contributions from other artists there was a performance by Satomi China.

Open daily and free to the public from 10 AM to 7 PM daily, except Saturdays and available for view also by appointments.

An online photo documentation on the daily progress of Angel Orensanz's installation will be on view on this website between January 18 and February 5.

Exhibition Closes On February 5

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