Installation view. Courtesy of Michael Benevento.

Installation view. Courtesy of Michael Benevento.

Currently on view at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles is “Deep, East, Real,” a solo exhibition by British artist Tariq Alvi. The evidence of a true collage artist is consistently apparent in works by Tariq Alvi, but in this second solo exhibition at Michael Benevento the resulting forms are a subtly entropic installation and a collection of digitally printed posters, fliers, and cards.  The title of the exhibition hints at a very serious discourse around psychology, reality/fantasy, and location. Alvi’s resourceful cultivation and reorganization of the information around him is often associated with beautifully meticulous scissor-and-glue work, and there is a considerable element of such scissor work in the exhibited installation Always There, Always Three, but the glue in that work is intentionally and noticeably absent.

“Deep, East, Real” is on view through May 10, 2014.
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