Devotion Gallery presents: Dan Tesene Lessons of Excess

A Data Visualization of the Consumption of Oil in the World against the Scale of Midtown 

Opening 6pm on Friday, September 17th. On view until Saturday October 9th 2010.

How much oil is consumed by the population daily? How many buildings would it take to house it all? Comparing daily oil consumption to the scale of midtown Manhattan, Dan Tesene contextualizes the magnitude of our addiction. Every day 84 million barrels are used, which would fill a structure 13 times the size of the empire state building. By dwarfing something we all relate to as being gigantic, the excess of depletion of this resource becomes concrete and comprehensible. This sculptural installation illustrates the perverse reality humans exist within, and the true drain of resources taking place 365 days a year. 

Bio:

Dan Tesene is best known for labor intensive drawings and intricate sculptures that transform mundane patterns and information into conceptually rich images.  His drawings and sculptures bring together complex patterns found in nature and relate them to the manufactured world in which we are immersed.  Tesene has exhibited in New York City, Florence Italy, Cairo and Alexandria Egypt.  While attending Minneapolis College of Art and Design he received a Merit and Vanderlip Scholarship. Upon completion of his BFA he received the Jerome Foundation Fellowship For The Arts (2005).

Currently, Dan Tesene operates his own digital fabrication studio, Artifact Projects in New York City, and manages the mold making and casting facilities at Atta Inc.

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DAN TESENE

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