Dada's Boys
dal 26/5/2006 al 15/7/2006
Segnalato da
Knut Asdam
Matthew Barney
John Bock
Roderick Buchanan
Marcel Duchamp
Angus Fairhurst
Damien Hirst
Keith Farquhar
Douglas Gordon
Martin Kippenberger
Jeff Koons
Sarah Lucas
Man Ray
Paul McCarthy
Lee Miller
Francis Picabia
Richard Prince
David Hopkins
26/5/2006
Dada's Boys
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Identity and Play in Contemporary Art. The exhibition begins with a small selection of historical touchstones for male dada attitudes in the form of typically succinct but incendiary provocations by Duchamp, Picabia and Man Ray. The bulk of the exhibition is then devoted to a more recent lineage of artists with demonstrable dada/surrealist sympathies who have continued to fashion a poetics of male subjectivity.
Identity and Play in Contemporary Art
curated by David Hopkins
Dada’s Boys examines male identity as part of a post-dada tradition, which was inaugurated most powerfully in scurrilous and iconoclastic gestures carried out in New York by Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia around 1916-17.
Irreverent humour, self-consciously laddish repartee, preoccupation with taboo bodily processes, regression to infantile patterns of behaviour, dandyish concern with sartorial display, and the wholesale questioning of traditional male attributes and roles, are some of the defining features of dadaist and post-dada art.
The exhibition begins with a small selection of historical touchstones for male dada attitudes in the form of typically succinct but incendiary provocations by Duchamp, Picabia and Man Ray. The bulk of the exhibition is then devoted to a more recent lineage of artists with demonstrable dada/surrealist sympathies who have continued to fashion a poetics of male subjectivity.
The exhibition seeks to move between the poles of male arrogance and insufficiency, eschewing a tone of pious political correctness for a more open-ended celebration of humorous self-reflexivity. The keynote for the exhibition is the sophisticated rudery and witty self-questioning that characterised dada at its best, and to which a major strand of contemporary art remains firmly committed.
Artists: Knut Asdam, Matthew Barney, John Bock, Roderick Buchanan, Marcel Duchamp, Angus Fairhurst/Damien Hirst, Keith Farquhar, Douglas Gordon, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Man Ray, Paul McCarthy, Lee Miller, Francis Picabia and Richard Prince.
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street - Edinburgh