Gallery
“Arts task is to save the soul of mankind and that anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.”
Espousing the idea that the identity of an artist is a conductor for a higher consciousness and art is the pipeline to reconnect its source. It speaks to the unconscious and delivers essential messages of self-reflection and universal themes. It not only allows us to navigate our very soul but also allows us to understand the greater purpose of collective existence.
The Label gallery views art is the essential component in our culture that serves as an indicator and means to confront where we are in our personal and collective evolution.
The gallery features work which confronts this very issue questioning the meaning and scope of our existence.
Our present culture is starved for an essential art, drowning in a media void saturated with career-consumed artists, ready-made false prophets.
Atrocities continue daily in this culture of indifference. The art world, which should its most vocal adversary is subjected to control and suppression by profiteers, who use the media for a hamster wheel formula of continuing to shock the already desensitized, in a calculated and contrived void which has surrendered meaning to a vacuous cliché.
The system, which has suffocated the essential motive of art, needs to be reassessed. The gallery represents emerging talent unwilling to mold themselves to this system.
It also reflects on the meaning and role of art through new historical perspectives via the trajectory of its past.
Commencing April 2007 Label opened to the public a gallery extension at its Lafayette St NYC store. The Label Media Arts Gallery, which deals with the promotion of artist video and the historical background, which catalyzed the birth of this medium. The Gallery will be accessible during store hours as well as hosting evening events where the space will be cleared to present video and film showcases. Its aim as a gallery will be to focus on the education and accessibility of culture to our neighborhood and community while allowing with new technologies an unfamiliar medium of the arts to be presented.
At these times, the store will be transformed into a cleared space for the exclusive viewings of the projected artist works.
