Art Review    
      Veracity, Validity, Fabrication, Facts?
Installation at Whitney at Altria
Issue 05 November 2006
review by Daniel Kunitz
       
 

 

 

...the two structures that make up Karlis Rekevics's Veracity, Validity, Fabrication, Facts? suggest the mournful bass line of brute power ebbing. Rekevics - perhaps the least well-known of the artists in the show, but one of the most talented sculptors working today - constructs living ruins. Here stand what may be two large sections of modern bridges or buildings (were they blown apart or left to disintegrate?), fragments of girders and blocks of stone all in cast plaster. Metal tubing holds some of the parts together; rows of light bulbs, some unseen, illuminate the structures. By now, the plaster limbs, bone white when installed, have been stained and smudged.