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24/11/2008

Take Me There

Haunch of Venison, New York

Haunch of Venison New York will present 'Take Me There (Show Me the Way)', a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture and installation featuring works by seventeen international artists including Haluk Akakce, Daniel Arsham, Nathan Coley, Mat Collishaw, Wim Delvoye, Jeppe Hein, Jochem Hendricks, Anton Henning, Alexej Koschkarow, Alicja Kwade, Won Ju Lim, Nathan Mabry, Ian Monroe, Liz Magor, Paul Morrison, Tia Pulitzer, and Ruth Root. The exhibition's point of departure is the hermetic 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili' (1499), a beautifully illustrated narrative of a dream within a dream in which the protagonist encounters imaginary works of sculpture and architecture.

'Take Me There (Show Me the Way)' includes work by seventeen artists from North America and Europe, with more than ten new works produced for the exhibition, and considers the course of artistic inspiration from the unconscious association of ideas and images to the transformation of these shapeless presentiments to corporeal realities.

Artists and writers throughout history have represented the flowering of psychical, spiritual, and artistic transformation
as a journey from a state of self-awareness to a higher consciousness - a process of revelation which unfolds in the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili' and which is interpreted through works in the exhibition.

'Take Me There (Show Me the Way)' is patterned after such dreams about journeys driven by physical longing, the promise of transformation, and the quixotic pursuit of the unattainable.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.

Image: Wim Delvoye, D11 Scale Model

Haunch of Venison
1230 Avenue of the Americas - New York
Free admission

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