Opening March 12th - 7pm: "Futuristic Textures From The Future, Volume II: Interference Maps" by Michael Mykola Haleta
Mission: Comics & Art proudly presents “Futuristic Textures From The Future, Volume II: Interference Maps,” the abstract collage work of Michael Mykola Haleta.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 12 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Michael Mykola Haleta (born 7 July 1978) (x-WZT Hearts) is an intermedia artist who lives and works in Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Michael has been constructing his comic collages for the past decade as part of an ongoing series, entitled, “Futuristic Textures from the Future”. His comic collage work has been published in various publications such as: Tokion, Shout NY and Giant Robot.
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Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 12 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Michael Mykola Haleta (born 7 July 1978) (x-WZT Hearts) is an intermedia artist who lives and works in Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Michael has been constructing his comic collages for the past decade as part of an ongoing series, entitled, “Futuristic Textures from the Future”. His comic collage work has been published in various publications such as: Tokion, Shout NY and Giant Robot.
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Michael Haleta’s collages take what appear to be old Marvel superhero comic book pages and cut them up and
paste them back together forming intense abstract fields, primary forms; what can be described as discrete Marvel-masses.
They look a bit like those late Dubafeys.
paste them back together forming intense abstract fields, primary forms; what can be described as discrete Marvel-masses.
They look a bit like those late Dubafeys.
I like them because they speak to me. They don’t brain wash me or clock me over the head and paint me into dull history.
They just speak matter-of-factly in words I get. They say: “I was made by a boy who loved those comic books and collected
them religiously, and now he’s come back and cut them up. I was made by a man who is still that boy.”
They just speak matter-of-factly in words I get. They say: “I was made by a boy who loved those comic books and collected
them religiously, and now he’s come back and cut them up. I was made by a man who is still that boy.”
Personally, I enjoy the innocent intelligence of these works because they are in fact quite smart because they remove the hero.
They create a kind of eternal sci-fi feeling, a potential for such wonderment, a key into such heroicism, without forcing the
oppressive male identification with muscle-gripping costumes, masks, capes and POWER. These are the first comic book pages
I’ve ever liked, to be honest.
They create a kind of eternal sci-fi feeling, a potential for such wonderment, a key into such heroicism, without forcing the
oppressive male identification with muscle-gripping costumes, masks, capes and POWER. These are the first comic book pages
I’ve ever liked, to be honest.
Haleta has recycled all that wonderful drawing and cheap color printing on newsprint and brought it all closer to home.
They are not so super as sweet … but in my mind they really are deliberate and honest compositions. Through their
articulation of space and form and their own paper materiality, they work their way into a visual language creating a
feeling of weight and atmosphere achieving their own delicate authority and command and – dare I say – power.
Yes, they do have POWER.
Jeremy Sigler 9/28/2009They are not so super as sweet … but in my mind they really are deliberate and honest compositions. Through their
articulation of space and form and their own paper materiality, they work their way into a visual language creating a
feeling of weight and atmosphere achieving their own delicate authority and command and – dare I say – power.
Yes, they do have POWER.
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