{"id":409,"date":"2025-01-23T07:43:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:40:33","slug":"david-altmejds-lynchian-universe-in-prelude-pour-un-nouvel-ordre-mondial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/david-altmejds-lynchian-universe-in-prelude-pour-un-nouvel-ordre-mondial\/","title":{"rendered":"David Altmejd&#039;s Lynchian Universe in &#8220;Pre\u0301lude pour un nouvel ordre mondial&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/e44b9db31bcd9951a2db93556621d385_L.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">When David Lynch passed away last week, I was writing a little bit of an overview of this show, Canadian artist&nbsp;David Altmejd&#8217;s &#8220;Pre\u0301lude pour un nouvel ordre mondial&#8221; at&nbsp;Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. It felt eerily apt and I stopped writing to look over the Lynchian universe, a bit of a gut punch to lose such an icon of Los Angeles in the wreckage of the fire disasters.&nbsp;Altmejd, to me, exists in this sort of post-Hollywood aesthetic, a juxtaposition of cultural and idyllic worlds mixed with the surreal and chaotic vision of modernity and post-humanism.&nbsp;In essence, while Altmejd\u2019s sculptures manifest physical transformations in the medium of sculpture and invite viewers to engage with them spatially, Lynch\u2019s films manifest narrative transformations that engage&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When David Lynch passed away last week, I was writing a little bit of an overview of this show, Canadian artist&nbsp;David Altmejd&#8217;s &#8220;Pre\u0301lude pour un nouvel ordre mondial&#8221; at&nbsp;Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. It felt eerily apt and I stopped writing to look over the Lynchian universe, a bit of a gut punch to lose such an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}