Steven Kasher Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of photographs titled Agog by Andrew Mer aka BigFusss mounted at Mitchell Algus Gallery, 132 Delancey St., NYC from January 16th through February 1st.
Active in the artworld since moving to NY over 30 years ago, Fusss is exhibiting his photography for the first time. The 30 images chosen for this exhibition, shot 2020 to present, map New York City by day and by night. The city seduces Fusss. He stands agog, full of intense desire, ardent, camera at the ready.
BigFusss created his pictures via Instagram. He is our Instagram flâneur, our IG urban observer. It is worth quoting Baudelaire: “The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes…. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite…. Or we might liken him to a mirror as vast as the crowd itself; or to a kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness, responding to each one of its movements and reproducing the multiplicity of life and the flickering grace of all the elements of life.”
You may have seen BigFusss traversing the city, phone glued to his ear. As he takes his meetings while walking he stops to shoot that special something that captures his eye. His eye is trained in film editing, trained to pick out salient moments. In a Fusss picture real things shatter, dissolve, become translucent, lose their fixed identity. They re-form as a glimpse of magic or a magical glimpse. No need to believe in ghosts to be haunted here, haunted by a past, a present, a future that do and don’t exist.
This exhibition brings together longtime friends and talented forces; Fusss credits Steven Kasher and Mitchell Algus for decades of training his eye, knowledge, and passion for art and photography.
Andrew Mer aka BigFusss is veteran of the independent film world as a producer, distributor and actor. Some of his recent projects include Taking Venice, The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons, and The Art of Making It, The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion. He was SVP Content and Business Development at SnagFilms. As a lawyer he originally moved to NYC as head of the New York office of Fine Arts Risk Management.