 
JUNE 2 THROUGH JULY 2, 2006
Gasoline is volatile. This rowdy symbolic adventure is a timely meditation on the
American romance with aggressive power.
| GASOLINE |
| Hubert Dobler |
| Friday, June 2 – Sunday, July 2 |
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Friday, June 2, 7–9pm |
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487 Driggs Ave, bet N. 9 and N. 10 |
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Directions |
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Thurs–Mon, 12–6pm |
| Contact: |
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info@JackthePelicanPresents.com 718-782-0183 |
In “Gasoline,” Hubert Dobler’s first NY solo show, he assaults the polite electronic
façade of our postmodern service-industry landscape with his mean machine
Honda CB550 Four, 1976. It is gasoline, the return of the repressed. No brakes.
Muscular energy.
The power is raw. The motorcycle is chained to the ceiling in Dobler’s Bull video
and it screams and bucks into the air and up against the walls like a wild beast.
And, through Jack the Pelican’s three galleries, Dobler has roughrided himself
through a sinewy course of sharp-left killer turns, painful corner beads and posts.
Around and around. Again and again. Even the narrowing straightaway is perilous.
Dobler takes a beating, but he is Austrian. —He can take it.
In the process, he burns rubber across the pristine white floors. Specially installed
for the exhibition, these coated boards register the fearless navigator’s momentary
flickers of hesitation and readjustment as he flings himself headlong, and also his
stops and starts of recovery after crashing. And gasoline cans litter the floor like so
many crushed Budweisers. In the back gallery, the beast Honda sleeps on an
institutional steel-frame bed, tucked cozy under a woolen blanket. (Yah, the motorbike
is tired.)
Gasoline, like liquid Viagra, fuels the lone cowboy’s raging libido. It is pure forward
motion and bikers everywhere feel the exhilaration. The rest of us on foot —pedestrians,
shoppers and especially gallery goers—are wont to feel as slow-meat, potential targets.
Dobler’s rowdy symbolic adventure is a timely meditation on the American romance
with aggressive power.
Hubert Dobler has exhibited widely throughout the US, Italy and Austria. He was born
in Fraxern, Austria in 1966 and earned his MFA in 1995 from the Academy of Fine Arts,
Vienna. He also has degrees from the Technical University, Vienna in architecture and
engineering.
BULL VIDEO
Honda CB550 Four 1976
approx. 50hp
Dimension:
overall length 83.5"
overall width 32.5"
overall height 44"
wheel base 55.5"
seat hight 31.7"
foot peg height 12.4"
ground clearance 6.3"
dry weight 423lb
Frame:
type double cradle frame
Front suspension, travel telescopic fork, travel 4.8"
Rear suspension travel swing arm, travel 3"
Front brake Disk brake
Rear brake internal expanding shoe
Fuel capacity 3.7 U.S.gal.
Fuel reserve capacity 1.3 U.S.gal.
Engine:
Type Air cooled 4-stroke O.H.C engine
Cylinder arrangement 4 cylinder in line
Bore and stroke 2.303"x1.992"
Displacement 33.19cu in. (544cc)
Compression ratio 9:1
Carburettor, Venturi Dia. four piston valve type, venturi dia. 0.866"
Valve train chan driven over head camshaft
Oil capacity 3.2 U.S.qt
Lubrication system forced pressure and wet sump
Fuel required low-lead gasoline with 91 octane number
or higher
Air filtration paper filter
Air screw opening 1 1/2
Idle speed 1000rpm
Drive train:
Clutch wet multiple-plate
Transmission 5-speed constant mesh
Pimary reduction 3.063
Gear ratio I 2.353
II 1.636
III 1.269
IV 1.036
V 0.900
Final reduction 2.176, drive sprocket 17T, driven
sprocket 37T
Gear shift pattern left foot operated return system
Electrical:
Ignition battery and ignition coil
Starting system starting motor and kick starter
Alternator A.C. generator 0.13kw/2,000rpm
Battery capacity 12V-12AH
Spark plug NGK D7ES or ND X@@ES
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