Weekly Dig

July 14 - 21, 2004

Richard Aliberti - Sculpture, Politics, Poetry and a Drum Machine

"Multimedia artist" Richard Aliberti not only earns the label, he lives it. Though he's made his living primarily as a sculptor, he's equally well-known around town for his music and poetry. Whereas many artists find their voice in a certain medium, Aliberti has a strong sense of his own artistic voice. For him, the challenge is to find the appropriate vehicle to express his latest ideas. At a recent one-man performance at the Zeitgeist Gallery, Aliberti read poems over a barrage of drum machine and synthesizer music, all set behind a mass of oddly shaped plastic and colored lights, creating the mind-bending effect of something out of the movie Liquid Sky.

Though Aliberti adamantly asserts that his art is primarily concerned with intuitive beauty and exists to provide escape from thought, his work is often thought-provoking, as the case with his politically poetry.

 

 

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