Robert Egert and Friends to Dec 19

Robert Egert: Beeding hearts and distraught souls cannot prevail against economic policies designed by non-human constructs.
oil on canvas 2015

morphopolis

ROBERT EGERT

New Paintings

with guest artists Chris Fiore and Tobias Tak

October 3 – December 19

The Zone

 

The Zone was an abandoned factory located at 104 South 4th Street between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street. In the mid 1980s the seven-storey building had three "tenants," only one of whom paid rent. On the top floor were the artists and punks who squatted the place for studio space. Some of them even lived there. A local Puerto Rican gang had the 4th floor. On the ground floor was the last legal tenant, Klaus, a German engineer in his 60s at least, who puttered around in a labyrinth of machinery. And if anything dubious happened in the Zone, which it did, Klaus did a good imitation of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heros — "I KNOW NOTH-INK!"