Guns, War and Site-Responsive Installation.

April 6, 2013 - PRLog -- April 6, 2013, New York, NY --- Baang + Burne Contemporary is thrilled to announce our representation of multi-media artist Dominic Sansone.

Based in Chicago, Illinois, Dominic Sansone is a multi-media artist and sculptor, whose work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions. Through the language of assembly, repetition, and production, Sansone’s work confronts the military industrial complex and its subsequent effects.

The sculptures often comprise hundreds of identical components combining to make a single piece or echo of an identifiable form in seemingly unrelated objects. Cast objects dominate the work, either in the more traditional media of bronze, iron, and porcelain; or more contemporary materials, such as silicone and urethane rubbers, foam, and plastic.

In Brand New God (2010-2011), 60 near life-size human figures in multiple colors bow in child’s pose with a gold plated AK-47 suspended above. Hungry Bellows of the Minotaur (2011), a series of 400 9-inch-tall houses made out of dirt and grass, took four months to build and during the opening reception the audience was asked to destroy the installation by pelting it with small plaster and iron heads, marking the 100th anniversary of the first aerial bombardment.

Though the works are not site specific, they exist in contrast to war memorials that the artist believes can glorify or romanticize combat. The work is a rebuttal to the public monuments, thereby rendering them site-responsive or perhaps even site-conditional as the artist Robert Irwin had once suggested.

In the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting, Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, Kentucky, censored crucial elements of Sansone’s work for a solo exhibit this February. Sansone choose to withdraw from the exhibit.

He is also represented by Fulton Market Gallery in Chicago.

About Baang + Burne Contemporary

Baang + Burne Contemporary is a roaming gallery under the direction of Charlie Grosso. Since 2010, Baang + Burne Contemporary has popped up in New York City in Chelsea, the East Village, and DUMBO for gallery exhibitions, curated artist dinners, and panel discussions; Miami Beach at SCOPE Art Fair; and during The Armory Week at SCOPE NYC. The gallery aims to engage the world at large and present work that generates dialogue critically, socially, and culturally. Baang + Burne Contemporary shows art that is the barbaric expression of the soul and an articulation of the world. The gallery is a social enterprise with the goal of facilitating art as an agent for change.