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May 16, 2004
Last Night's Opening of the Dunny Show
When we headed over to Mercer Street last night for the opening of Kid Robot and Visionaire's Dunny Show - we expected to see what has unfortunately become the standard downtown gallery scene - a lot of people looking for a free beer as well as some interesting sights and some good conversation. But unforuntely not much attention on the actual art.
Well, last night the Dunny Show blew us away, both in the quality of the art and the diversity of the people who came out for it.
For the Dunny show, KidRobot has pulled together a diverse group of artists from all sorts of disciplines to transform 24" versions of Kid Robot's blind chase figure, the Dunny, into unique pieces of original art. Included in the show are Brothersfree, Maharishi, Frank Kozik, Haze, DEPH, Jonathan Alger, Doze Green, Diane von Furstenberg and 42 others. The crowd was an amazing cross- section of all of New York. You had men in business men in their suits who were in their 60s, drag queens, club kids, the artists, skateboarders, graffiti writers and members of the New York graphic arts scene.
Our favorite piece of the night was perhaps Tim Biskups intensely red Dunny who seemed to be racing into the future. We also liked the Stuben Glass piece by Joel Smith - a vase, where the head of the Dunny was blown out to hold a boquet of flowers. Finnaly, we loved a soft of Frankenstein Dunny whose body had been smashed apart and restiched together using screws.
This show is a lot of fun and not to be missed - it'll be up for another two months, so get down to Visionaire at 7 Mercer St and check it out.
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