Kay Rosen
dal 18/11/2008 al 9/1/2009
Segnalato da
18/11/2008
Kay Rosen
Alexander Gray Associates, New York
No Noose Is Good Noose is a multi-paneled installation, hand-painted on sheets of board and Plexiglas, combining figuration with language. The children's word game Hangman is a jumping-off point for Rosen's exploration of how language is widely used to motivate, organize, and execute political revolution.
Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to present, in association with Yvon Lambert Gallery, a project with Kay Rosen. On exhibit will be Rosen’s 1983 text-based installation, No Noose is Good Noose, and a related unpublished artist book Mined, both of which are key works in Rosen’s development as an innovator with text as image. The show runs concurrent with the solo exhibition Scareful, featuring new works by Rosen at Yvon Lambert Gallery’s spaces in New York and Paris.
No Noose is Good Noose (1983) is a multi-paneled installation, hand-painted on sheets of board and Plexiglas, combining figuration with language. The children’s word game Hangman is a jumping-off point for Rosen’s exploration of how language is widely used to motivate, organize, and execute political revolution. Made at a peak of the Reagan-era, the piece conflates motion and movement—literal and metaphorical—building a circular narrative in which declarations are transformed into policy. As Rosen’s linguistic universe illuminates, words are not only tools for manipulation, but also for democratic and open-ended possibility, depending on the positioning of the messenger and the recipient.
Reception for the Artist: Wednesday, November 19
Alexander Gray Associates
526 West 26 Street - New York
Free admission