\nmatter how casually conceived. Currently at 4Culture Gallery<\/a> is
\nHashemi’s Object History Awareness<\/i>, an assemblage of photos and
\ninstallations. Hashemi believes in the alchemical attraction between people, places and things. If he were answering a personals ad, he’d say yes to everybody. Any x standing next to any other y is instantly in a serious relationship. <\/p>\n
Within his vast sea of connections, he allows for individual goals. Everyone wants to light fires in the studio, for instance, and almost everyone fails.
\nHashemi feels for those failures. His grid of comic efforts at ignition
\nburies metaphor under the weight of the literal.<\/p>\n
Studio fires<\/i><\/p>\n
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How about a birthday
\nparty? Each one marks progress towards the grave. Why not, since we’re
\ngoing there anyway, die faster? (Hope I die before I get old<\/i>.) <\/p>\n
Cake with Fast Lit Candles<\/i><\/p>\n
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Page through any book
\non the history of art, and you’ll find flowers. Below, in an interaction with a note pad, are both the flowers
\nand the flipping through a text to find them.
\n
\nBouquet of Flowers (After Pissaro)<\/i><\/p>\n
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“Let a hundred flowers
\nbloom,” said Chairman Mao. What followed was the flower-filled paradise of the Cultural Revolution. Even
\nthough Hashemi is an artist instead of murderous thug and Communist Party Sun
\nGod, his goals have a similarly lofty ring: Let a hundred forests
\nbloom. He’s starting with nine. Everyone has to start somewhere.
\n
\nPotted Plants<\/i><\/p>\n
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Last year, at an exhibit honoring graduating B.F.A. students at the University of Washington, one of Hashemi’s sculptures disappeared during the opening party. Hashemi later found it beside a trash can, waiting for removal. Apparently, a volunteer doing a last bit of tidying up had mistaken it for rubble. How could that have happened? Below, a representative of Hashemi’s sculptural prowess: <\/p>\n
We repeat ourselves, and so do our products: endless iterations of us and our desires, a baggy monster of consumables. Without crapping the dice (prearranging the outcome, known in the sport as cheating), Sol Hashemi approaches his wide-world of materials as if they were the elements of his own crap game. Objects are in play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"solhashemisculp.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/solhashemisculp.jpg\")
I think it’s terrific. Through Feb. 26. (Previous on Hashemi and his frequent art partner, Jason Hirata, here<\/a>. Michael Upchurch in the Seattle Times on the current exhibit here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"