Take it furthur!
dal 15/9/2005 al 15/10/2005
Segnalato da
Shannon Bool
Tobias Buche
Jedediah Caesar
Alessandro Ceresoli
Aleana Egan
Christian Frosi
Sean Landers
Ellen Munro
Karen Russo
Jordan Wolfson
Gyonata Bonvicini
15/9/2005
Take it furthur!
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Part2. The artists included in the show try to oppose the present-day economic and cultural amorphousness as well as the mass cultural industry, through the strong reassertion of the ideas of personal development, individual inner accomplishment, cultivation of complementary identities, but also through social and political responsibility.
Part2
Curated by Gyonata Bonvicini
''I make out a school bus ... glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and small, like a cross between Fernand Leger and Dr. Strange, roaring together and vibrating off each other as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of Day-Glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester school bus and told him to go to it.'' (Ken Kesey)
Furthur was the original name of the ''magical mystery tour'' bus, used by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters; the ones who started the entire psychedelic movement.
The 1970s have been mythologized in a number of ways and constantly represented as an endless source of alternative imagerie. After more than 30 years, what is the legacy of this grand transformation, and why is this aesthetic still so affective? TAKE IT FURTHUR! is the dynamic synthesis of increasingly subversive attitudes by a young generation of artists exploring the tension between aesthetic sensibilities and a darkening global vision. The project - developed in two distinct, exhibitions – provides a setting to express their idiosyncratic voices freely as they investigate a creeping uneasiness in the Western society.
The artists included in TAKE IT FURTHUR! try to oppose the present-day economic and cultural amorphousness as well as the mass cultural industry, through the strong reassertion of the ideas of personal development, individual inner accomplishment, cultivation of complementary identities, but also through social and political responsibility.
Artists:
Shannon Bool
Tobias Buche
Jedediah Caesar
Alessandro Ceresoli
Aleana Egan
Christian Frosi
Sean Landers
Ellen Munro
Karen Russo
Jordan Wolfson
Andrew Mummery Gallery and Gyonata Bonvicini would like to thank Artprojx for their support in this project.
Private View: 15 September 6-8pm
Andrew Mummery Gallery
Studio 1.04 – Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street - London
Gallery open Wed-Sat, 12-6pm