Mark Lombardi

Amazing drawings of "conspiracy art". I saw the show that was at the Slusser Gallery in Ann Arbor and got a chance to look at the pencil drawings up close; the companion book for the exhibition does a good job of rendering them, but to appreciate the fine hand it really helps to get there.

I understand there's a show in New York City going on, see the Times article below for a review.

Some recent press:

New York Times review: Mark Lombard: Global Networks, organized by Independent Curators International, is at the Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, SoHo, (212)219-2166, through Dec. 18 2003.

NPR interview with Robert Hobbs, curator of Mark Lombardi's "Global Networks" show of network drawings

Article on Mark's work...Toward a diagram of Mark Lombardi.

In print only: Punk Planet #60 "Lombardi's Web", reprinted in the July/August 2004 "Utne Reader".

Thanks to Valdis Krebs for the links.

Comments

[Ed]

http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle1637.html is an article from "disinformation" that has several more Lombardi links, and a review of the exhibit by Uri Dowbenko of Conspiracy Digest.

[Ed]

Here's a Village Voice review of Lombardi: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/essay.php

[Brian]

Liana and I really enjoyed Lombardi's exhibit at the AGO in Toronto, thanks for the links & info.

[Edward Vielmetti]

Another Lombardi link, this one a high res scan of the George Bush / Osama bin Laden graph:

http://alt-f4.org/img/George_W_Bush_Harken_Energy_and_Jackson_Stephens.jpg

[Edward Vielmetti]

Those looking for conspiracies find Mark Lombardi's death a conspiracy to be connected to those he documents.

http://www.bcrevolution.ca/cia_druglords.htm

Lombardi created a number of pieces which graphically revealed well documented but little known connections between the crooks of the world. On the verge of a major career breakthrough (his works had just been acquired by and shown by the Whitney), Lombardi reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself.

Like Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield ("Favored Son) and investigative journalist Danny Casalaro who had nearly completed a book on Bush, BCCI and other topics, Lombardi was reportedly a 'troubled' individual who become unbalanced by the prospect of succeeding at his life's ambition.