One evening, around the Summer Solstice, 2013, at an artsy gathering in Midtown Manhattan, Ella Averbukh, a magician in her own right, approached Meret, whom she was seeing for the first time. She looked him in the eyes and said, “You are a sorcerer!”. Mirolevich was a few feet away, but she already knew him. A couple of centuries ago, a public statement like that would have gotten them in trouble. However, in twenty first-century New Babylon (or New York, as its name is disguised in Anglo-Saxon), sorcerers Meret and Mirolevich are flexing their imagination to the delight of those ready to surrender to a roller-coaster of cross-cultural references. The two grab the impossible and make it visible; then add to it the three basic ingredients of good art: mystery, surprise and fun.
The Mirolevich/Meret blend of magic is interdisciplinary (right, as if this big word could fit sorcery in any way). The younger Mirolevich is using more of the classical tools like drawing, painting, printmaking, although he’s not shying away from bold experiment. His meta-mental constructions seem to be designed to belittle one and each to humble subatomic beginnings. Yet, this intimidating transgression is handled skillfully by Mirolevich: it makes one coming back for more!
Meret, on the other hand, tends to get wild as he manipulates almost anything from the surroundings that can be suspected of carrying esthetic value. Anything of that sort can be incorporated in his playful, conceptually intense sculpture/assemblages. His new series, “Témoignage from a distant Dimension,” offers the viewer a set of ceremonial objects and artifacts from the intriguingly familiar KonSummerist culture rampant in the Lower Hudson Valley at the turn of the 21st century. If one bends his/her head in a slightly contempoparallel way, and allows just for a touch of spelling readjustment, it suddenly becomes crystal-clear where it all came from.
This June the Moon was eighteen % bigger than normal. Italo Calvino's recipe has it that such a time is propitious for Moon mana harvesting. Our two sorcerers they are in the middle of this ritual.
Join us at ARTHAMPTONS for some samples!
Nicolas Veh
June 2013
New York
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