Jack the Pelican
487 Driggs Ave
718.782.0183
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Gregory de la Haba, Equus Maximus at Jack the Pelican
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July 9, 2009 – Sep 3, 2009
Mondays (noon–6pm)
Thursdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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What grew out of a one-person show in Jack the Pelican's project room earlier this year has dug in its heels — or hooves, as the case may be — and turned into a summer-long residency and semi-permanent installation. New York multimedia artist Gregory de la Haba's not-to-be-missed masterpiece Equus Maximus is ambitious to say the least, involving life-size taxidermy show-horses in full Vegas dance-hall regalia, and sporting exaggerated sex organs, a casino table, a suite of lavishly staged, ornately costumed photographic portraits, a soundtrack, and mood lighting. The overall effect is at once baroque and erotic, emotionally charged, and animated by a certain primitive, tribal sorcery that lends a deep soulfulness to the tableau's splashy titillation.
