Diego Bianchi
Project Room: Frankie Martin
Mural by Bhakti Baxter
LOCUST PROJECTS is pleased to kick-off its fall season with an eagerly anticipated installation from acclaimed Argentine artist Diego Bianchi and a site-specific work crafted by Pennsylvania-native Frankie Martin in the LP Project Room. Watch out for a new mural on the Locust façade by Miami artist Bhakti Baxter.
Since his days as a graphic design student at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina’s Diego Bianchi has amassed a reputation for creating outlandish, sprawling installations from materials such as discarded trash and household cleaning products. Boundless in their scope and rife with political undertones, 37-year-old Bianchi’s works serve to question life’s natural order. The site-specific installation fashioned for his Locust Projects debut is among Bianchi’s most ambitious to date. For seven weeks he will transform the gallery space into a veritable wilderness, an overgrown marshland peppered with plant life and bubbling fountains frantically eschewing gasps of steam and colored light toward a rain-filled sky, where chiming droplets hang suspended in time. Bianchi’s work serves as an exploration of mystical and cultural phenomenon that he envisages will encourage viewers to “consider natural disasters as a possibility for a new order of things.”
Rural Pennsylvanian-native Frankie Martin, also celebrating her Locust Projects premier, will showcase her site-specific installation and performance in the LP project Room. Martin, who received a BFA in sculpture from Philadelphia’s Tyler School of Art in 2000 is best known for works that combine sculpture, video, drawing, costumes, music, and human interaction. Her impressive résumé is testament to her talents, the young artist having exhibited extensively throughout the United States, as well as in Asia and Europe.
Special thanks to Luis Adelantado Gallery, Miami
image: Diego Bianchi, Site specific installation, Mixed media, 2007
