Sven Augustijnen
Michael Borremans
Johannes Kahrs
Marije Langelaar
Mark Manders
Paul McCarthy
Mike Kelley
Kirsten Pieroth
Marta Kuzma
16/11/2004
Drafting deceit
Apexart, New York
Exhibition modestly approaches the construction of delusion as a deliberate gesture that infers a particular performability located in the purposeful drafting of the illusory. Artists: Sven Augustijnen, Michael Borremans, Johannes Kahrs, Marije Langelaar and Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Kirsten Pieroth. Curated by Marta Kuzma.
curated by Marta Kuzma
Unlike anything human, art lays claim to being unable to lie, and thus it is compelled to lie.
-Theodor Adorno
Drafting Deceit modestly approaches the construction of delusion as a deliberate gesture that infers a particular performability located in the purposeful drafting of the illusory. In deciphering and unraveling the delusion, it is art’s privilege to reveal, as Nabokov believed, the intent of deception as an instrument for the coercive. In turning back upon its own materiality, it is through art's making, through its staged matrix, that allows for the semblance of the truth.
Marta Kuzma was most recently Co-curator of Manifesta 5 (San Sebastian, Spain, 2004)
Thurs, Nov 18, 6:30-8:30 pm
gallery talk: Marta Kuzma, Sven Augustijnen and Johannes Kahrs with screening of Dark Side of the Moon by William Karel
during reception and gallery talk
special screening of work by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva: The Imparticular Man, On the ParaMagnetism, The Stroll by the Zone and The Impenetrable Stone
Artists: Sven Augustijnen, Michaël Borremans, Johannes Kahrs, Marije Langelaar and Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Kirsten Pieroth.
apexart
291 Church Street, NYC