GALERÍA BICKAR IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE "New York - San José", its inaugural exhibition of young talent from New York and San José, Costa Rica. The exhibition runs from April 22 - May 31, 2010. "The evolutionary epic," wrote E.O.Wilson, "is probably the best myth we will ever have."¹ Or rather, the narrative that we use to give meaning to the history of the universe, which, according to Wilson, "retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic."² The continual need to create a known object is evident, as the object remains within the parameters we have created to protect the limitations of our ability, or willingness, to perceive meaning. How can we begin to understand the trajectory, if one exists, of human development? Does wisdom excel folly? We are confronted with the inability to escape our own witlessness whilst being completely aware of it.

This exhibition brings the imperceptible into view, as process and material reveal themselves, giving way to the underpinnings of the circumstances of our existence, circumstances which engender the evolution of matter itself. With distinct vocabularies, each of these artists speaks to his or her own system of knowing, of finding, creating and interpreting. One witnesses a snapshot of time for artists whose very understanding of the distance between themselves and the rest of the world differs greatly from artists of even a single generation before them.

This exhibition addresses pressing issues to a specific generation, while drawing upon the extant problems posed by artists of preceding ones, be it formally or conceptually. Ambient recollections of the artists' geographic histories, gender and identity politics form the mystical thread among artists working in disparate locations, within a world that is sometimes so small, so informed, so understood, that we hardly see the boundaries at all.

"New York - San José" will include work by Lauren Gibbes, Luciano Goizueta, Daniel Guerrero, Andriy Halashyn, Michael Hall, John LaMacchia, Sebastián Vallejo and W. It runs from April 22 to May 31, 2010.

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¹ E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1998
² --- Conscilience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978