Ian Arenas, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Sidonie Loiseleux

L.A. Wonderground

9/5/2008 - 10/4/2008 at Maniac Gallery

L.A. Wonderground: Recently from Los Angeles from September 5th 2008 through October 4, 2008. Three emerging artists from Los Angeles project the social feasibility of contemporary public sculpture, replicate borderless representations of national defense, and provide a dissection of power and knowledge through language and culturally trademarked texts.

Sidonie Loiseleux, Ian Arenas, and Diana-Sofia Estrada all work in close relation to a process-based art, making visual notice of the symbolic nature of their subjects while actively attempting to re-route contemporary philosophies pertaining to global citizenship, worth of existence, and cultural identity back to an earlier relevance.

100 of 1001 Attempts, F-15 captures Loiseleux's failed attempts at creating paper airplanes displayed in Plexiglas casing. Accompanied by massive (from ceiling to floor), inkjet prints of unfolded paper airplane attempts, F-22 Raptors (2003- ), and F-15/F-1 Mirage (1990-1991), Loiseleux depicts the "literal territory of folded lines" drawing regard to enemy lines and national borders during times of conflict. Arenas recreates his public sculpture 'A How-To Instruction Manual for Sleeping and Shoplifting' (a project collaboration with John Barlog and John Burtle), carrying on the tradition of time-based work depending on disappearance in the public realm. Regarding daily symbolism, Arenas works with the destinations of work and leisure, production and waste.

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