gasworks "The Pierogi 2000 Flat Files: New York Drawers" London, England 30 august - 28 september 1997   Time Out London Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles Gasworks Pierogi 2000 is an artist-run space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an area of New York whose cheap housing has made it a magnet for artists. The problem of how to represent such a concentration of creativity is the basis of this show; the answer is the humble flatfile (plan-chest to you and me). Three hundred artists are represented mostly by drawings; but the definition stretches to include painted panels, photographs and slimline objects. Each artist has a work pinned to the wall and by cross-referring to the plan-chests and donning a pair of coton gloves, you can leaf through a further selection of work. Drawings are ideally viewed in this way; through the process of locating, removing and handling indivdual pieces qualities of sponteneity, expreimentation and intuition are enhanced. If Pierogi 2000 has a gallery style, it's not discernible here. The all-embracing selection includes a Rayogram of acid tabs and asprins by Fred Tomaselli, tracing paper stiched to pictures of beds by Teresa Hackett and drawings made by Eduardo Difarnecio's dancing feet. Also notable are Leslie Robert's little paintings. She cuts postcards into jigsaw bits and then paints out parts of the image. Reassebled and coated in varnish they take on a jewel-like quality. A steroscopic viewer gives Pat Courtney's photographs of the city an unworldly spatial depth. Andrew Moszynski's little paintings are part geometric abstration, part road-sign; Bruce Pearson's are pure psychedelia. A more convincing representaion of New York art than a dozen issues of Artforum. MARK CURRAH
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