Marianne Vitale is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Working with a variety of mediums and disciplines, she has recently been creating large dilapidated reliquaries of Americana, notably with her ongoing series, Burned Bridge.
 
For Le Confort Moderne, Vitale has proposed Bright Dark Future, for which she has constructed ten new sculptures, each to represent a planet, such as the demoted Pluto, and the Sun. All these celestial bodies are in abstract, but tangible form, anchoring the entropy of the solar system. Upon further research, it turns out the universe is very, very dark.
 
For the exhibition, planets are depicted as perplexingly formidable constructions. Earth, the “restless cradle of life”, as a bunker; Saturn, sprawled flattened rings pinned to a wall; the demoted Pluto as a merged grave marker; Jupiter as a deconstructed king’s crown; Venus, a strikingly tall totem of love; Mercury, a sun- baked bridge; Mars a “False Front” (to life?); the remaining equally as mysterious
while provoking thoughts of the stellar frontier.
 
MARIANNE VITALE (b. 1973, New York) is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, 1996. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, White Columns, the Brooklyn Museum, Anthology Film Archives; and international venues such as Tensta Konsthall, Sweden; UKS, Norway; Cass Foundation, London; Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius, Lithuania.
 
Vitale is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery, New York. Upcoming projects include Frieze Projects/New York commission, May ‘13; Kunstraum Innsbruck, September ’13; and Performa New York commission, November '13.