.HannahSeidlitz writes about a gallery show in Tribeca, which featured the works of the Swiss artist H. R. Giger and an avant-metal concert.
One recent Sunday evening, Alexander Shulan, the thirty-three-year-old owner of the Lomex Gallery, in Tribeca, was pacing the space, worrying about his gallery’s potential ruin. In a couple of hours, as part of the first major New York retrospective of the Swiss artist H. R. Giger since his death, in 2014, Shulan was staging an avant-metal concert, which, fearing pandemonium, he’d decided not to publicize. He’d heard things about past Giger shows.
In the gallery, Shulan was scheming with his assistants pro tempore when the expected throng of Lower East Side scenesters and new Pratt grads flooded in. The throne Giger designed for Alejandro Jorodowsky’s never-made “Dune” adaptation was the first thing they saw. “My son would love it for gaming,” a guest named Matthew Rosenberg said, peering at the nearly seven-foot-tall glossy black chair modelled on a human skeleton.
Across the room, the former d.j. DB Burkeman, in joggers and a Mike Kelley T-shirt, was arguing with a painter about the origins of tentacle porn. Before them was a wall of three white-on-black prints from a series Giger did in 1969 of body-horror biomechs––part female viscera, part Ace Hardware.“It’s sexual,” Erik Foss, the former co-owner of the Lit Lounge, said. “It’s violent, but it’s sensual at the same time.” Suddenly, the lights flashed off and on and people headed toward the door.
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