Reply #6: Why this matters...BFEE is scared of the TRUTH!

[Octafish]

Documenting these BFEE Social Networks is something we can ALL do. It's a way of showing how the Bush Organized Crime Family is tied to global criminality, illegal war and genocide.

It's no joke. Down with the BFEE.


The late Mark Lombardi,
Researcher, Artist, BFEE Fighter.



Here's a decent over(re)view from Village Voice...

Turning Conspiracy Theories Into Visual Exorcisms
Dark Star

by Jerry Saltz
May 9th, 2003 6:00 PM

Weird how art communicates deep or secret things about its maker. The first words I said to Mark Lombardi when I met him on November 19, 1998, the day before his New York debut opened, were "You're not crazy or going to kill yourself, are you? Should I be nervous?" He gripped his Styrofoam coffee cup, took a rapid drag off his cigarette, grinned, gave me a funny sidelong glance, and chuckled, "No." Sixteen months later, on March 22, 2000, Lombardi hanged himself in his Williamsburg loft. Friends said he had been "stressed out." Hinting at a darker side, some reported that he had been "warned" not to exhibit work tracing the political and financial doings of several mob families.

Lombardi was obsessed with conspiracy. To make his art—big, lacy, seemingly innocent ornamental diagrams that resemble flow charts, star maps, blueprints, or subway plans—he lived, breathed, and slept conspiracy. (Two of these color-coded beauties are featured in the New Museum's current "Inside the Grid"; two more can be seen in "High & Inside" at Marlborough Chelsea.) And boy, did he research it. Lombardi maintained a file of more than 12,000 index cards listing facts and figures associated with various scandals, culled during hours spent over books and periodicals. His subjects ranged from the familiar to the obscure to the sinister and included the savings-and-loan crisis, the arming of Iraq, Whitewater, the Iran-Contra affair, and the Vatican Bank scandal. Names like George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Meyer Lansky, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden pop up. As do cartels and companies like Lockheed, JP Morgan, BCCI, and Drexel Burnham. There are also a host of shady bankers, CEOs, spooks, and criminals. A line labeled "75 million dollars" might connect to a circle with the name Richard Perle that leads to another labeled Kissinger. Oliver North and Pat Robertson are linked together, as are the pope and Margaret Thatcher. Pretty soon you find yourself fixated on conspiracy, too.

Needless to say, our post-9-11 age would have been Lombardi's glory days. I don't mean this lightly. We need him. It's heartbreaking that he isn't here to help diagram everything that has happened lately.

Pierogi's show of 37 of his small preparatory drawings, all made in the seven years before his death, and all executed in his spidery scrawl, provides a fascinating glimpse into the configurations Lombardi experimented with before making his super-neat final drawings. It's also a poignant reminder that Lombardi's story doesn't happen much in New York anymore. In 1996, at the urging of Fred Tomaselli and the late Colin de Land (both of whom saw his work in Texas), and at the relatively late age of 45, Lombardi moved to Brooklyn from Houston, where he had operated his own gallery, Square One. Once here, things happened fast. He fell in with a group of artists. His work got out. Writers took notice. Collectors started buying. By 1998, with the help of Joe Amrhein, the Williamsburg gallerist-patron saint who runs Pierogi, Lombardi's star was on the rise.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0320/saltz.php