'Leandro Erlich’s sculptural environments create stages that dramatize quotidian spaces by upending our assumptions about them. He often goes to great lengths to set up simple, but intense shifts in spatial metaphysics. For the Shanghai Biennial in 2002, Erlich built a ballet studio whose mirrored walls were in fact clear glass; in perfectly twinned rooms, dancers mirrored each others’ movements to create the illusion of reflection; viewers found themselves conspicuously missing from the reflected scene.
'Erlich makes art which challenges our idea of reality. He is interested in what we see, the spaces we occupy and the contexts we find ourselves in everyday. He suggests that "what we take for granted is the whole concept of reality, because we assume that reality is something that is there, and is a fact and is unchangeable . . ." Instead he feels "that reality is something we are dealt, and the final product of what is reality, is a matter of major construction made by us".
'Erlich constructs installations or complete physical worlds which the viewer enters. He uses whatever building materials necessary including mirrors and projections to create forms of reality. His work engages almost all the senses and we are invited to participate, even interact within the spaces he creates. By doing so we become actors on an elaborate theatre stage, experiencing an environment that is in part real, in part fiction. Leandro Erlich is Argentinean and in creating these spatial and psychological illusions he seems to align himself to the strong story telling traditions of South America where nothing is quite what it seems and the viewer is forced to suspend their sense of reality.' -- collaged from various sources
Leandro Erlich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973. He lives and works in Paris, France, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich Official Website
LE @ Sean Kelly Gallery
LE @ Galerie Perrotin
LE's 'Lost Garden'
LE interviewed @ Ideal [Dis-]Placements
LE's & Stephen Shore's 'I Love YouTube
LE @ Facebook
Swimming Pool (1999)
Window and Ladder (2006)
Le Cabinet du Psy (2005)
La Torre (2007)
Log Cabin (2009)
The Staircase (2005)
Batiment (2004)
Neighbors (1996)
Carrousel (2008)
Rain (1999)
Mies Van Der Rohe Cake (2009)
La Plaza (2005)
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Shattering Door (2005)
Smoking Room (2006)
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p.s. Hey. So, I didn't go to Parc Asterix today, obviously. There's a real chance I might go tomorrow instead, so, same deal, i.e. there might be a full-fledged p.s. on Friday, or there might just be a brief, generalized hi and an intro to the post. Alert to any of you who are in NYC and/or its environs: Tonight at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the knock out writer and d.l. Tony O'Neill is launching the publication of his new novel 'Sick City' (Harper Perennial) with a reading and free booze, and being there is definitely in your best interest. Here's the info. ** David, Howdy. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Sounds really nice there except for the heat, of course. There's a real chance you'll get some relief on the temperature front while you're here in Paris. Forecast has us in the high 70s or low 80s for the next while. ** David Ehrenstein, I've never heard of Michael Sayers before. I'll go read that obit. and then investigate further. Thanks! ** Emily, It's so true about her hair. She's cemented within her 'Melrose Place' character for me, and when I was slightly younger, I used to pretend I was pretending she was my landlord. Fantastic John Waters post, now that I've finally had the chance to read it. Part 2, please. ** Shane Le Vein, It's a date? Excellent. I might even be able to get you in gratis or get you a big discount at least if the Pompidou isn't all fascist about that kind of stuff. ** Killer Luka, Dutch genes are among the most underrated in the world. I don't dare. Paris has the filthiest pigeons I've ever seen. They're like flying dirt clods. ** Misanthrope, I don't think I've ever seen LTP in anything, but I trust you on that. Oh, ugh, on the delay of your mom's surgery and why and how bad she's feeling as a consequence and how stressed I'm sure you feel as a consequence. Let me know what the doctors say today. So, I'm guessing that mysterious job thing you were hinting at didn't happen? The 2012 end of the world stuff is so ridiculous, I can't even pretend to get philosophical about it. ** Pilgarlic, Yep, that guy. I don't know what happened to him. I think I saw him starring in a SyFy Channel original movie a few years ago, and when someone stars in a SyFy movie, it's usually at the end of the road of his or her career. But maybe he acts in theater or something. Whatever happened to Richard Thomas? Dixie Dingo is a nice word(s). I like the sound of your dog. It sounds like he's using his life to the max. ** Steevee, I've only heard a few tracks off the new MIA, but it sounded kind of expected on the one hand and trying a bit too hard on the other hand or something to me. Well, yeah, I think she or we or someone caused us to expect too much, the world. ** Tonyoneill, So wish I could be there tonight, Tony. Break every leg in the house. That was a gorgeous mustache, man. Your upper lip is very virile. Oh, thanks so much in advance for sending me an excerpt. I know you're caught up on the pub stuff, and I really appreciate that, man. I'll do my very best to do the book proud. ** Kier, I don't know those other games. I bet they're non-Nintendo games. I'm a Nintendo guy, stuck with their line-up, but I hope to be an Xbox guy too when the money's right. I almost slept yesterday, and I never sleep when it's light. It's like I can't fully wake up the last week or so. It's driving me bonkers. I'll try to take a photo of the green box thing and show you. Hope the blood test is very non-dramatic today. ** Colin, Hey, pal. ** JW Veldhoen, Where isn't it global ... ? I don't know. Global doesn't have to be bad. New York is just New York no matter how much it thinks it's everywhere. ** Joseph, Thanks again, man. Yesterday was awesome, thanks to you. Oh, yikes, about losing your wallet. I'm getting a phantom sweaty forehead over here. Over here, you don't need ID to get on a train or even to buy a train ticket, but the US is all ID-crazy, obviously. Hope you got to NYC. Are you there? Can you say, if so? ** Brendan, I used to be all about the dirt cheap, all you can eat Vegas buffets. They're not the gigantic feasts they were anymore. The Luxor used to have the best one, quality of food-wise. The one at Circus Circus was the most vast. Gosh, I don't think I've been to Vegas in, hm, eight years maybe. Pre-Encore, for sure. I totally want to go. With you. I'll check your FB page when I make my daily zip in and out of there later. Thanks about my process. People here like you are the generous ones for being interested at all. Saying Compton-Burnett's sentences are perfect and exhausting is so good. I can only read two or three pages of her books before I need to stop and catch my breath. ** Postitbreakup, Hey. Uh, I still do my pattern things sometimes, but I don't let myself get obsessive anymore. With me, it wasn't that the pattern was bad, just how it made me lose my sense of logic. Your pattern sounds trickier. I guess in your case it would be a matter of discovering whether having a platonic, even-minded relationship with the people you're drawn to would be satisfying to you or not, and whether the lust and neediness is just something you're attaching to the relationship because you're programmed to do that. I guess you'd need to really realize that need/lust stuff is unrealistic and a mistake and inappropriate or else you should break the pattern entirely, recognize when someone you meet is triggering that stuff and stop yourself from forming any relationship with them? ** Ken Baumann, Hey, K. I'll go find your email. Yeah, cutting the 'K' off of night seems pretty odd. I saw a trailer for that movie last night. I see why it sort of tanked. I don't think you told me that full a version of your Venice adventure. Man, what a trip that one was. You guys should come back and do it all over again, albeit with more Paris time. Great Anthony Perkins quote. When I first started reading it, I didn't see the quote mark, and I thought you were talking about yourself, and I was, like, oh poor Ken. ** Creative Massacre, Glad you hear from you on the other side, pal. I hope the complications aren't too complicated. Let me know, and, hey, congrats! ** Bernard Welt, Weren't you at that party in NYC with me where I talked to Dennis Christopher for hours? Oh, I think it was Donald. I feel like I must be kind of weird because to me the idea of sucking your own cock is sort of like the idea of having sex with your mom or something. Even when guys do that in porn where it's not queasy-making at all, I hit Fast Forward. ** Tosh, Hi, Tosh! Excellence to see you! You're bring the family? A boon. Um, I'll be in the States at some point in October. Do you know generally when during that month that you'll be here? I'll try to organize my thing so I'll be here rather than there if I at all can. ** You-x, Hi, man. Always lovely to see you. I'll go check out the newest stages of your never ending painting, cool. Hope your mood sweetens right away. ** Nb, Yep, LA has super nice mountains. Did you get up to Angeles Crest Highway? Those mountains are the best ones that are close by, I think. So, you should move to LA, no? Seems like the obvious solution. ** Alan, I only vaguely know the name Zach Galifianakis. I did a quick google, and I think the only movie of his that I've seen is 'Up in the Air'. I'll pursue him. Man, great news that your novel is going so well. A couple of months until a complete draft? Fantastic! What happens then in terms of your next line of attack on it? If it would feel jinxy to talk about it too much, of course don't. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hi. Oh, I fucked up. My pal Lena meets with the guy today. I hope, I hope it works out. She needs a job to stay in France for one thing. She's Ukrainian. Great about the reviews you're writing! Really, thank you so much for doing that. I really can't wait. Yury doesn't want me to smoke in our room, which is totally reasonable since it's not a big room, and mostly I smoke in the stairwell like a good guy, but sometimes I just don't want to walk all the way there so I lean far out the window and puff instead. Yeah, not the best bathroom experience ever on your end. Sorry. Maybe your ear problems are actually a stomach problem, and they're just like your stomach's antennas or something? That doesn't make any sense, I guess. My day: Tried to work on my novel, and I still can't get my focus and concentration up to speed, and that's bothering me more and more. I need a break through. I think maybe if Oscar and I go to Parc Asterix tomorrow, the roller coaster adrenalin might work. I got exiled by the cleaning crew. While I was out, I bought some food and two muffins and a magazine (Chronicart, a French kind of art magazine), and ate one of the muffins while reading or 'reading' the magazine on the Recollets' stoop. When I wrote the word muffin just now, I remembered that I have a second one, so I just went over and got it, and now I'm eating it. Blueberry, very good. The afternoon was/is a blur. At 6 pm, Oscar, Kiddiepunk, and I walked over to the Mk2 Quai de Loire movie theater and saw 'Inception'. I found it pretty annoying. People keep saying it's confusing, but I thought its every twist and turn was dumb-ass obvious. And the supposed big twist at the end was a total yawn. The big through-line about DiCaprio's wife and kids was dreary. It seemed overwrought, emotionally empty, mechanical, full of 'seen it all before' visual tricks telling the audience it was supposed to go 'wow'. Some of the ideas behind it were interesting, like the stuff about dream architecture and so on, but, for me, even the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies are more interesting about dreams than 'Inception' is, and if you compare it to other mainstream tripped out movies about dreams or alternate realities like 'In the Mouth of Madness' or even Fincher's so-so 'The Game', I thought it was weak. So, yeah, I didn't think much of it, and I'm pretty sure Oscar and Kiddiepunk didn't either. But it was nice to see Lukas Haas for the first twenty minutes. His being in it was a surprise. After walking back from the movie, I think I just blabbed with Yury and surfed the net a little and crashed. How was/is Thursday treating you? ** Statictick, Yeah, when I was living in Amsterdam, I got German measles. It sounds like a silly disease, but it was pretty serious and debilitating and not helped by how fucked my immune system was when I got it because I'd been on a long crystal meth binge at the time. At first, I was sure I was dying of AIDS. The symptoms were very similar to the ones people had in the early days of the AIDS crisis. When I was finally diagnosed, the relief kicked my ass into finishing 'Closer'. I couldn't get out bed for months, but it didn't affect my mind that much, so I was able to lie there and write without too much interference, and I don't think the disease had an effect on the my writing or on the novel really, other than creating a fear that I could die before I wrote the Cycle. And the German measles was so hard on me that my immune system was really weak for a couple of years after that, and I got sick all the time, which kept that fear in the front of my mind or whatever. So, I would say the main effect of the illness was a new sense of urgency that ended up kind of sticking with me in the longer run. Not sure if that helps or is of interest re: your situation. ** Frank Jaffe, Hey, Frank. Happy to see you. Oh, Marcus Hu, yeah ... what happened was very complicated, but I have nothing but warm and admiring feelings towards Marcus. If you see him again, please say hi for me and give him my best. He's a great guy, and it's very characteristic of him that he would give you support and all the help he can. No, I don't think that Tilda Swinton movie has gotten here yet unless I missed it. I always keep my eye out for her stuff. I'll try to catch it. Yeah, something I really love about the French is how passionate and up in arms they get about things they don't like, whether it's a film or something the government does that they don't like. Or like at the Avignon Festival where we got heavily booed and heavily cheered too. In the case of 'Irreversible', the haters were totally wrong, of course. But, in general, I do love how much people really and noisily care about things over here. Good day, man. ** Tomas, Hey! Next week I should be pretty free. I'm done with the theater work for now, and I'm just working on my novel now, or trying to. Let's meet up, see a movie or something or anything. ** So, like I said, I'll see you tomorrow, but I might not be bringing a full-fledged p.s. with me. We'll see again. Enjoy the gallery show of Leandro Erlich's stuff if you can and do. Greet you in the morning.
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