KOOR "BACK TO THE ROOTS" (NYC)
Through April 15th
Chuck "KOOR aka KOOL KOOR" Hargrove started writing graffiti in the south Bronx in 1976. After participating in virtually every important exhibition on Graffiti Art in New York City his dynamic artwork took him on a journey exhibiting in galleries and museums around the world. You can find KOOR in famous collections such as The Metropolitan Museum, Chicago Renaissance Society, The Butler Museum, Wihelm Hack Museum in Germany, The Groninger Museum in the Netherlands and an impressive list of others. Today gallery 151 is pleased to welcome KOOR back for his first solo exhibition in NYC since over two decades. Titled "Back to the Roots" KOOR is reflecting on the symbolism and architecture in his artwork, taking us on a journey into the past then straight into the future. Exhibition runs from 1 through 14 April
Gallery 151
151 Wooster St., 2nd Floor (off Houston Street)
New York, N.Y. 10012
Please call Gallery for exhibit hours at 212-375-0151
1 train to Houston Street, C and E to Spring Street, R and W to Prince Street.
About KOOR's ART
KOOR creates artwork that makes us feel that life as we know it is not real at all, there lies several other levels of reality that we choose not to see. Each reality tragically effecting another. We feel this because we can see that other side in his artwork. Tension of his every day struggle to exist in this world becomes clear in the reality of his artwork. Architectural structures bend and twist like strands of nerves in human anatomy, Like the mind fighting to calculate a difficult equation. The use of robotic forms reminds us that there is still a link to a our reality. Like in the works of Mobeus we discover deep transforming perspectives in KOOR's drawings relaying to us that even these new worlds are not yet fully defined. It is here that we find the key to the power of KOOR's work. The rules are being made along the way. However definite they may be, even the artist has to play by them. The longer we look the more it all comes together. We are discovering frame by frame the projections of the meaning of life as it radiates on the surfaces of another reality. A reality where we want to return to, or one where we very well may belong.
