Broadway Gallery NYC is pleased to present
The Shining Mantis: Kangarok VIII, The Kneon Knives are Sharp On Broadway
November 1-30th, 2009
The Shining Mantis is a Brooklyn base collaboration of Mike Estabrook and Ernest Concepcion. The primary works done by the duo are the legendary battle drawings known simply as “Kangarok”. This is a fusion of the unnamable presence of the Mephistophelic Kangaroo, and Ragnarok, the Nordic apocalypse.
“Our work is about antagonistic collaboration: battle drawings. We fight each other through spontaneous bursts of imagination. These drawings most often take the form of large-scale chalk drawings, done directly onto the wall. We often execute these drawing as a live performance.
For their exhibition at the Broadway Gallery show, The Shining Mantis will expand our usual repertoire to include two video monitors facing the entrance to the gallery, depicting a Praying Mantis Warrior and a Demon Kangaroo (these would be Ernest and Mike in masks), the primary enemies of the Kangarok Saga, screaming taunts at each other. The drawing (which will be done in chalk) will be installed on sheets of black paper that would be cut to fit the walls and other, more oddly shaped, spaces in the gallery, as well as on free-standing sculptural elements positioned around the gallery.
