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"Borrowed Sun"

September 11 - October 9, 2004
Reception: Saturday, September 11, 6 - 8 pm

Edgar Arceneaux's work is based on an intense interest in relationships. In his drawings, sculptures, and ambitiously sized installations Arceneaux employs an artistic strategy that draws connections and builds relationships where we don't usually see them: between similarly sounding names and words, between accidental places and events, between fact and fiction, high and low culture. Arceneaux's ingenious exploit of alliteration and association, his weaving together of connotational connections, has developed into an explicitly non-objective approach which is to no small extent intended to subvert rational order and disturb linear logic.

The drawing, The Immeasurable Equation is part of a triadic relation formed in the 2004 exhibition "Borrowed Sun" at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. In the installation Arceneaux constructs relationships between the sunspot drawings of Galileo Galilei, the enigmatic Jazz musician Sun Ra, and the work of conceptual artist Sol Lewitt. The leitmotiv of the exhibition is the concept of the cycle and how each artist/scientist used them in varying ways to understand to produce new understandings of the world. The cycle as ever recurring event that is so diametrical opposite of any linear structure has particular meaning related to the three components of the exhibition. Galileo observed the cycles of the sun during a lunar month but had to use a camera obscura to observe it, as directly looking into the sun would blind you. In the 1970‘s Sol Lewitt used deterministic systems to produce Permutations on an Open Cube, so the beauty of the work was not a matter of taste but a matter of the system. Sun Ra used improvisation and chaotic systems to produce musical works that were both random and deeply mathematical in their harmony and rhythms. In an installation of drawings, films, and a large sculptural work referencing a drawing by Sol Lewitt, Arceneaux creates points of contact, a plateau of opportunities for the three elements in the exhibition to be experienced and changed in the process.

The Immeasurable Equation is a drawing that takes Sun Ra’s deeper metaphysical thinking and connects them with the belief systems based in the harmonics of numbers, planets and stars of the Egyptian and Pythagorean Theories of Music. Ra saw the blackness of space not as racial identifier, but the place where one can loose the shackles and determinism’s of history to be reborn anew. Space is the Place is a dream that he felt he never fully realized, but died believing that music is the fuel to get us there.

Arching from a phenomenological approach to the actual physical experience of rational systems, the exhibition reflected an understanding of the world not from its facticity, but from the experience of the self in the world, as Arceneaux puts it in another work in the show, “Place is the Space”. The word sun and son is a plays on words, as he examined his relationship to the lineage of these ideas, how he has inherited them, and made them his own.

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