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Lance Letscher’s The Perfect
Machine at D. Berman gallery right now, will mess you up, something
bad. By that, I mean, that the show will blow your mind—BOOM! It’ll
leave you with a nose bleed and handful of goodtime. Ok, that might
have been a bit much, but it is really good, simply said, I enjoyed
the step up from the already super star work from last year’s show.
Official Release:
“The Perfect Machine features new collages and collaged objects by
Lance Letscher at d berman gallery! Letscher’s colorful and geometric
collages explore concepts of locomotion, technology, and the creative
impulse. The exhibition is in conjunction with the publication of
his imaginative children’s book also titled The Perfect Machine. “
Admittedly anxious upon hearing the title, The Perfect Machine, I
was prepared for disappointment. Such a thing does not exist; Machines
are not to be trusted. Until the first images for the show began to
leak forth, I whole heartedly pictured a beautiful failure similar
to the ‘Perpetual Motion Machine’ that Vonnegut wrote about in Hocus
Pocus, a beautifully built shiny whirly gig that doesn’t live up the
name, but non literary (literal) attempts have been made at building
a perpetual motion machine to no avail, or at least that is what Detroit
would have you believe.
However, Letscher’s Perfect Machine is actually a book, so in your
face Big Three. Or it could have been that sweet ass scooter he put
in the show, we don’t actually know. I didn’t get a chance to ask
him because he was too busy stacking paper ($!) in the cigar smoke
filled back office (cigars that were lit undoubtedly, with hundred
dollar bills).
Weary that the bike was done half-assedly with vinyl or vehicle wrap
like the few sickeningly uncommitted hot rods that graced our streets
recently, I had to get a closer look. Letscher remained consistent
and awesome in his execution of the moto-collage. If you are like
Ol’ Uncle Sugar (Bricks), then grew up reading ‘Lowrider’ magazine
and know a couple of things about car customization then you know
how it could have played out. Letscher went high end road of Rat Fink
by recreating the shell of the scooter with fiber glass and then laying
dow his chunky soup style chip board collage. Sp–looosh.
You too could own The Perfect Machine (book):
“…A limited edition version of this book will also be available. All
proceeds from it will benefit the Superhero Kids Fund, which supports
the Children’s Blood and Cancer Center of Central Texas. Please visit
www.superherokids.org for more information.”
All in all, it was a great show from a great showman, but still these
words lack what I felt like standing next to that scooter, deep down…
in my junk:
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