Recorded Berlin, November, 1937

 

"Recorded Berlin, November, 1937" is an archeological rendering of a monument to grandiose and easily forgotten human ambitions, and tragically, the frequent failure of art to redeem those who create it. The title refers to a recording of the Magic Flute, made in Germany in 1937 at the height of Nazi power and the seeming contradictions of a production of Mozart's great ode to freedom and brotherhood by a regime based on conformity and persecution of difference. In the rubble and decay of great monuments we often see the missed chances to save Humanity. Corwin uses molded plaster panels to create surrogate surfaces and pseudo-architectural structures by piling, leaning and hanging the panels on available walls and floors. He then paints and draws on these surfaces, and incises, scrapes and smashes them as well. 

 

 Will Corwin grew up in New York City. In 2000 he moved to London and apprenticed for a year with the noted Saatchi painter Richard Patterson. Corwin exhibited regularly at the LaMama Gallery in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, and has had installations at chashama Queens, the Aferro Gallery in Newark in 2006, the Flushing Town Hall, Queens, the Theater for the New City, Manhattan, and the Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan, in 2007.