An alien answer [VIDEO]
A mentor told artist Wilfred Sarr, “If you can’t be holy…then at least be funny.” A conversation with artist Wilfred Sarr is about as linear as an axe murderer’s path to heaven. Or at least an alien’s path to the White House lawn. Discussing his upcoming show “Mox Nix,” opening at Cannery Row Studios in Redondo Beach on Saturday, Wilfred Sarr references sources as disparate as Buster Keaton, Bob Dylan, Kali Yuga and Mad magazine. “This show will have all different kinds of disjointed things, disparate things, all connected under the idea of ‘mox nix,’” Sarr said. The show’s namesake comes from an Americanized version of a German expression (macht nichts)—meaning, “it doesn’t make any difference,” which Sarr picked up during his time as a GI stationed near Brücken. It is the natural progression of an idea that began with his 2009 Cannery Row exhibit, “The Dancer is the Answer,” and continued with his 2010 offering, “50 + 1 (What was the question?).” “The answer and the question have become the same thing in the idea of, ‘It doesn’t make any difference,’” Sarr said. “I don’t care if it’s answer or question.” Sarr’s show will feature 85 acrylic paintings, the majority of which are…
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