Article: Danger: Chandelier

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Danger: Chandelier

Alejandro Almanza Parada

Magnan Projects

317 Tenth Avenue/ 505 West28th Street, 212-244-2344

Through October 25

Although the Tenth Avenue gallery's shatteredglass front door resulted from an accident it lends a Duchampian celebration of chance to Alejandro Almanza Pereda's exhibition. Bom in Mexico, the artist was educated in Texas, and his sculptures can conjure thoughts of El Norte's stability versus the volatility found south of the border. Almanza's precarious constructions delve beneath such simple clichés, however, as in his tower of glass boxes enclosing an incongruous mix of items, including axes, paper lanterns, splattered cement and U.S. currency. ...

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