Appearance.GALLERIA D'ARTE MODERNA If the specter SPECTER - Special Program for Enhanced Correlated Tactical Electro-Optical Reconnaissance of biological manipulations of reality rooted in our very DNA inhibits our full embrace of the future, irony affords a vehicle to meet our millennial forebodings halfway. This, at least, seems the case with Galleria director Danilo Eccher's five-artist show. Eccher traffics in the play of "appearances," the pleasure of relinquishing one's identity in order to inhabit others, whether through acts of transvestism 1. the practice of wearing articles of clothing and assuming the appearance, manner, or roles of the opposite sex. 2. transvestic fetishism. trans·ves·tism (tr  ns-v (Luigi Ontani or Yasumasa Morimura) or through the construction of fabulous quasi quasi (kway-zeye, kwah-zee) adj., adv. from Latin for "as if," almost, somewhat, to a degree (always used in combination with another word). Quasi refers to things and actions which are not exactly or fully what they might appear, but have to be treated "as if" they were.-mythical types (Pierre et Gilles). But the irony runs deeper: Our foreboding with respect to what lies in wait is domesticated. (think of Mariko Mori's reassuring techno-zen fantasias fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent., however, the term designated a contrapuntal piece employing imitation and thus was one of the forerunners of the fugue.) only by the same advanced technologies responsible for our dystopic angst angst 1 (ängkst)n. A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression. angst 2 abbr. . Jan. 27-Mar. 26.
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