reaction to the industrial age. Instead
of painting grim symbols depicting
the dynamic quality of contemporary
life through machines, they interact
dynamically with the grim industrial
environment itself-and enjoy it.
Reaction has been replaced by
action. Expressionists illustrated
man's internal landscape by painting
human forms colored by emotion.
Think of pulling a bone-jarring
disaster and you'll realize that
Sorealists are living embodiments of
that same inner angst. Just as artists
finally abandoned the confines of
familiar forms and entered the realms
of Dada, Abstract Expressionism,
Surrealism, and Pop, Sorealists have
ceased to abide by normal physical
laws. In other words, the pure cojones
in the abstract action of a fakie blunt
move you as much as the pure form
in an abstract Kandinsky. Similar to
the Happenings so loved by members
of the Fluxus movement, Sorealist
sessions are scorned by the
authorities but thoroughly enjoyed by
all who participate in them. The
ground rumbles, old ladies tremble,
the board is popped, and the rail is
Far Left: Mike Kresky takes a typical unfinished looking
Deconstructivist object and gives it new life. Photo:
Scott Starr. Left: Traveling at high velocity, Sergie Ventura
leaves his image in the picture frame much as action
painters Pollock and Klein would leave their images on
canvas. Photo: Bill Thomas.
slid. It's a ten-second performance
piece-high-speed conceptual art.
Sorealism isn't dissected and
discussed by pretentious critics
whose world is dependent on past
comparisons and self-gratification. It
cannot be sucked and diluted by
cloistered coffee-klatchers who won't
look past art history textbooks.
Sorealism is not a theory, it's not a
style and it's not a symbol-it's a
concrete reality. Sorealism is so real
that if you don't like it you'd better get
off the sidewalk.
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