Haiku Reviews: Fear, Form and Flirting (PHOTOS)

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be a sonnet or a string of words together. Today Peter Frank gives quick takes on visual art from Los Angeles to New York. Is there a show or performance that you think people should know about? Write a Haiku with a link and shine a light on something you think is noteworthy too.

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PHOTO: Paul Gabrielli, Untitled (Alarm Bell 1), 2010, Ultra-cal, plastic smoke detector, inkjet-printed sticker, steel bolt, wood, acrylic, enamel, 12 x 12 x 4½ inches WHAT: Paul Gabrielli Invisible-Exports 14A Orchard St., New York, NY Through March 27 HAIKU REVIEW: Paul Gabrielli is something of a hyper-realist sculptor - "something" of one because his sculptures, all of which seem to be common working objects for private or public spaces modified in clever ways, often are common working objects modified in clever ways. Sometimes the alarm bell or surveillance camera or piece of handrail is fabricated by Gabrielli in trompe-l'oeil fashion, and sometimes it's the real thing; similarly, the added device that goofily modifies the primary device - the flashlight balanced on the camera, for instance, or the smoke detector attached awkwardly to the face of the bell - could have been crafted by the artist or bought in a local hardware store. This conflation of the handmade and the readymade is itself an elaborate exercise in fooling the eye, and mind, hilariously forcing the shotgun marriage of Duchamp's premise with that of the 19th century verism he disdained. -Peter Frank

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PHOTO: Paul Gabrielli, Untitled (Alarm Bell 1), 2010, Ultra-cal, plastic smoke detector, inkjet-printed sticker, steel bolt, wood, acrylic, enamel, 12 x 12 x 4½ inches

WHAT: Paul Gabrielli
Invisible-Exports
14A Orchard St., New York, NY
Through March 27

HAIKU REVIEW: Paul Gabrielli is something of a hyper-realist sculptor - "something" of one because his sculptures, all of which seem to be common working objects for private or public spaces modified in clever ways, often are common working objects modified in clever ways. Sometimes the alarm bell or surveillance camera or piece of handrail is fabricated by Gabrielli in trompe-l'oeil fashion, and sometimes it's the real thing; similarly, the added device that goofily modifies the primary device - the flashlight balanced on the camera, for instance, or the smoke detector attached awkwardly to the face of the bell - could have been crafted by the artist or bought in a local hardware store. This conflation of the handmade and the readymade is itself an elaborate exercise in fooling the eye, and mind, hilariously forcing the shotgun marriage of Duchamp's premise with that of the 19th century verism he disdained. -Peter Frank

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