Recent investigations have led Martinez to both small and large - scale abstract sculpture, made mostly from found materials
including rubber hoses, Styrofoam, cardboard, and metal scraps sourced from wherever the artist is working at the time: Greenpoint and Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, or East Hampton and the North Fork in Long Island.
Not exact matches
Those at elevated risk
include women exposed to high levels through jobs in the automotive industry,
rubber hose manufacturing facilities and nail salons, but as with other endocrine - disrupting chemicals, scientists are concerned that low doses might be harmful, too.
Other issues
include faulty VANOS solenoids, leaking headlight washer jets, cracked
rubber cooling system
hoses and suspension bushings, faulty window regulators.
This
includes the expression using metal scraps, cardboard, Styrofoam and
rubber hoses... Surely, it will be exciting to see what has he prepared for the show at Kohn Gallery.
Among the many works
included in the show are Marcel Duchamp's 50 cc ampoule of the air of Paris housed in his Boite - en - valise from 1938, Piero Manzoni's pneumatic sculpture from 1959 - 60, Corpo d' Aria (Air Body), consisting of a deflated balloon, a
rubber hose and tripod, and Yves Klein's infamous fiction Leap into the Void (1960).