With berserk
glee, Bercowetz plunges into the pell-mell of pre-politics, where nascent
activism and thuggery meet. He takes his cues from the German Anti-Fa
movement--skinny punk rockers who bring out the knuckles on skinheads--and
Tupac Shakur. It is an in-your-face engagement with macho juvenilia, an
all-out, all-over collision of images, objects and bad words. Mounted on the wall or on rudimentary stick scaffolds surrounding the sculptures are further works on paper-- magic-marker drawings, collages and paintings. They reference a storm of personal, political, countercultural, and art world icons, from Bowie knives to Ted Nugent to nationalistic Scandinavian Black Metal, Bas Jan Ader, militia compounds, the Bush clan and social protest movements. |