New Haven Independent

Ojbect Lesson #3

by Stephen Kobasa | March 31, 2009 11:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Richard Falco, untitled (self-titled), found wood, 2006 and ongoing
Museum of False Art
510 Derby Avenue
West Haven

Nature and art struggle with a co-dependency that is both inevitable and unnerving. New Haven artist Richard Falco has discovered a way of resolving that tension in this assemblage of woodland debris that dances somewhere between accident and intent. While it suggests the work of the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, it has none of that artist’s studied contrivance or illusory perfection. There are puzzles in the twigs for which Falco finds one solution, and then another. Time and weather collaborate, rather than damage. What you see in the photograph is not what exists at this moment, and that, too, may well have been altered by the time you seek it out, if you do. The work is always complete. And never.

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