"Tango dancers shift to a pure kinetic reason grafted in the specifics of a simple street dance. At the fringe of the city, drained of its margins, the pavement is inhabited by dance."
Pedro Cuperman
THE
POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY
presents
TANGO
Installation &
Performance
October 18, 2007 - February 28, 2008
Music, dance...
transposed into video—a sort
of performance
projected into the space of the gallery
where audience and art become intertwined
in the field of representation.
Georgia & Vatan
VIDEO RECORDING OF THE INAUGURAL EVENT NOW TO
BE RELEASED AS A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING:
A renowned Miami-based Tango instrumentalist and composer
Maestro Miguel Arrabal, on the classic bandoneón
Vatan & Georgia from SyracuseTango
along with Jean Fung from New York City’s Fun-Tango
and tangueros from near and far who performed to the rhythms
of the Maestro in a one-time only extravaganza,
where the space of the gallery
and the sidewalks of
East Genesee St. turned to dance floor.
Maestro Miguel Arrabal
FREE ADMISSION / OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
TANGO, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and thirteen pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.
“Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white. More than once the artist has asserted, ‘There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.’ For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful. The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, “Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity.”Thomas Pado,
NANCY GRAVES, Excavations in Print
A Catalogue Raisonné (1996).
TANGO: PRESS RELEASE
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