ArtKrush reviews INNER AND OUTER SPACE

INNER AND OUTER SPACE
at the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh)
Now through January 11, 2009
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Across town from the galactic-themed Carnegie International exhibit Life on Mars, the Mattress Factory brings together nine artists who explore art and space in Inner and Outer Space. Modern art's spatial investigations are reprised in Luca Buvoli's sculptural Instant Before Incident (Marinetti's Drive 1908), representing futurist pioneer F.T. Marinetti's fateful car crash; recalling a three-dimensional futurist painting, the piece literally leaps out of the gallery through a window. Bahamas-born Tavares Strachan collaborated with scientists from Carnegie Mellon to develop a robotic rover that explores a fictional stellar landscape in Where Do We Go from Here and reports back to a command center in the museum parking lot. The museum space is further transformed by Mary Temple's pair of trompe l'oeil installation paintings of shadows, while Sarah Oppenheimer provides an unusual vantage point with her hole in the floor.

(reviewed by Brian Skar for ArtKrush)

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