Conspiracy' Art Linkletters
gurdjieff 0f gormorrah
Nope, It ain't a report on the real big one...naaw, they
still ain't found JFK's brain...that still be missin' , up and gone,
like it had legs or sumthing.... or, perhaps, a moped.
{Last known appearence of the 'ol grey matter was in
Bethesda, Maryland....) perhaps, the brain *just* suddenly
got in the mood for some of those Dee-lis-i-ous soft shell craps
that Maryland be all famous for.
Come to think about it...JFK's cranium was 'bout the same consistency
of a soft shelled crab about that time...
Q: got any president's brains?
A: nope...go fish
Nope, what I am gonna reveal here is 'bout Art ...yep, ART...to
be exact.... The 'Conspiracy Art of Mark Lombardi
Lombardi explored subjects ranging from the
collapse of the
Vatican bank {GG's insert...and the death of the Pope ) to the Iran-Contra
scandal.
( I have read over this section and I did not find any drawings of Oliver
North Sitting on duffle bags full of cocaine....while flying Air Amerika en
route back to the U.S. ....returning from a 'lil visit
with that charming Commander Zero of Contra fame. Yeah, 'ol Zero just reeked
of
trust, charm and alturistic ideals, didn't he? Yeah, and I be damned...Zero
kinda reminded me of Daddy Bu5h....
The results are not only detailed slices
of history, but also works of art -- some looking like constellations of
stars on a
dark night, others swirling clouds of abstract lines and points.
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1487185.html
Nov. 1, 2003 -- A few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an
FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to
see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an
artist who had committed suicide the year before. Using just a pencil
and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of
curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and
international
terrorism.
press release
"Busted banks, hot money, financial fraud...people make art out of that
these days?"
"They do now," says Mark Lombardi.
Pierogi 2000 is pleased to present Mark Lombardi's first solo show in
New York. Working from syndicated news stories and other published
reports, Lombardi compiles and transforms vast amounts of financial and
historical data into what he calls "narrative structures" - drawings which
at times consist of hundreds of notations juxtaposed and woven into a
single, unified strand or image.
In this show, the artist examines a series of global financial intrigues
stretching from Baltimore and Little Rock to the Caribbean, Europe
and Australia. In one drawing he considers the role played by a
Philadelphia bank in the sale and export of embargoed high-tech
weaponry. In another he explores the scandal-ridden Vatican bank
whose downfall in the early 1980s
was described by Fellini, who closely followed the affair, as "a
thriller...
an old-fashioned bloodthirsty story."
"At some point in my development," says the artist, "I began to reject
reductivist approaches in favor of one capable of evoking the complexity,
venality and occasional brutality of the times. What emerged was a study
of 'irregular' financial transactions, with special emphasis on those
undertaken
in secret by select groups of influential yet silent partners."
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A traveling show of Lombardi's work opens this weekend at the
Drawing Center in New York City. NPR's Lynn Neary spoke to
exhibit curator Robert Hobbs, professor of art history at Virginia
Commonwealth University, who discusses why Lombardi's work
should be considered art, and not just good research.