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This exhibition "corpoREAL (exCHANGE)" has been organized into three separate sections, each aspect is located in situ within its own space. Although each component is different they relate integrally to one another in the same way the yin and yang relate.

The components of this exhibition are as follows:
1. Gerard Pas' and Huang Chih-Yang's collaboration "The foREST" - this page
2 . Huang Chih-Yang's DAT - digital and DVD projections "I'm cute germs" - media.
3. Gerard's concept drawing and studies for his sculpture. - drawing
4. Gerard's "Portrait of Chuck Close" *to see and read more on this collaboration please click here.

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Installation photos from the exhibition "Corporeal (exchange)" - The Forest
- this collaboration consists of 7 multimedia sculptures containing numerous aspects
- each object includes: a vessel which houses electronic, sculptural and food components
- in situ these objects have been laid out in the form of a celestial constellation "Ursa Minor" which contains the star "Polaris" or the "North Star"
- these works are back dropped by a beautiful panorama of New York City through large windows at the back of the space / seen in the image on the far right * or click here to see more images of NYC by Pas

Details from the "the Forest" and individual sculptural components
- above left: installation photo showing 5 of the 7 objects created by Chih-Yang and Pas
- the middle image shows one of the crutches springing into life from its previous inanimate form: limbs covered in foliage sprout from different locations over the surface of the crutch
- on the right we see one of Pas' sculptures, which he considered "Winter" as this tree is dormant while awaiting it's foliage to return
- Gerard planned for these works to convey all of the four seasons for this collaboration / installation

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Installation photos from the exhibition "Corporeal (exchange)" - The Forest - this collaboration consists of 7 multimedia sculptures containing numerous aspects - each object includes: a vessel which houses electronic, sculptural and food components - in situ these objects have been laid out in the form of a celestial constellation "Ursa Minor" which contains the star "Polaris" or the "North Star" - these works are back dropped by a beautiful panorama of New York City through large windows at the back of the space / seen in the image on the far right * or click here to see more images of NYC by Pas
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Details showing Huang Chih-Yang's DVD videos of germs - inside each vessel is a 20" TV monitor connected to a DVD digital video machine - a different digital video, created by Chih-Yang, plays on each monitor - each video depicts studies of germs which Huang had been documenting for over 6 months, previous to the current anthrax scares in the USA ..."Life imitating art?" - surrounding each TV monitor and filling the rest of the vessel is a blanket of white rice - next to the TVs, rising up and out from each container are Gerard's sculptural elements consisting of crutches morphing into living trees which then tower over top of the entire vessel - Huang and Gerard humorously observed, that the above images look a lot like giant bowls of rice with chop sticks protruding out from them - there is a myriad of meanings and twists of content within all of these works: from the oven vessels, the food (rice), the germs to the changing crutch/trees
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Details of the vessels and Pas' sculptural elements - the vessels which Huang and Gerard used as containers for their mixed media objects are portable "Pakistani Ovens" normally used to cook naan breads, tandoori and other eastern foods - they where manufactured in the Punjab, Pakistan and found by the artists at an Asian distributor's warehouse / sheet metal shop in Williamsburg - Brooklyn, New York ( just prior to the show) - Gerard's sculptures are made from actual wooden crutches which have then been cut and grafted with artificial plants
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Individual details of Pas' unique sculptural elements - each container not only includes various and differing digital videos by Huang Chih-Yang but also separate and distinctive sculptures by Gerard Pas - each crutch changes into another form of tree and no two trees are alike
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Details of Pas' sculptural elements - on the left you see Pas' sculpture of "Spring" made up of blooming Wisteria vine growing out of branches which have supplanted the previous supports of the crutches, the base remaining the ambulatory aid with its rubber tip - Rose Klabin of the Latin Collector NYC and Huang Chih-Yang look into the monitor at one of his "germ" videos surrounded by a blanket of rice inside the metal vessel with Gerard's sculptural element rising up from and above the container
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