The Strycker

Low tech works too

At RARE PLUS, Italian artist Eugenio Percossi's installation, Black and White, made me smile. I was so enamored with Olafur Eliasson's Room for one colour, in which the Scandinavian artist used a weird yellow light to make viewers in the room appear to be black and white. Percossi's installation also evokes old cinema and black and white photography, but it does so in an even more low-tech way. Every thing in this empty bedroom is in shades of gray-- from the bed and bedding to the wallpaper, the paintings, the books and the bookcase that holds them, even the plant. The viewer then comes upon a mirror in which she sees herself, a startling splash of color, an intruder in this vintage world. Fun show.

On view through June 21st at RARE

posted by Jacquelyn @ 12:16 AM