FEB 13–MAR 30, 2013
Wednesday, February 13th for Taking a Stroll with the Lift Operator, a performance by Viola Yesiltac in collaboration with Oliver Input.
To listen to the audio recording please follow this link and visit Oliver Input
on soundcloud.
on soundcloud.
Curated by Fionn Meade, Catch As Catch Can inhabits a gap between parody and seriousness, consorting and mingling with sculpture, film, graphic design, and poetry, but always with a wry yet beholden eye towards painting and its terms and limits. Taken from the nickname for wrestling match entertainments of the early 20th century, Catch As Catch Can embraces a "no-holds-barred" attitude of reinventing genre, medium, and persona via available means.
Inspired by the presence of Francis Picabia's painting of the same name—Catch As Catch Can, 1913—the exhibition engages a prying apart and emptying out of stylistic investments, critical prompts, and polemical stances in order that these tactics be revitalized with a restless comic gravitas. Painting as a genre and idea of mobility and mimesis—moving readily between graphic optical forms, versioning of the artistic self, and gestural pose—is explored in contemporary artistic practices that embrace a spirit of rupture, allowance, and divided attentions.
Artists in the exhibition include: Will Benedict, Kerstin Brätsch, Tom Burr, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Jutta Koether, Nick Mauss, Francis Picabia, Shahryar Nashat, Lucy Skaer, Kianja Strobert, and Viola Yesiltac.
see also Mousse Magazine online
http://moussemagazine.it/catch-as-catch/#more-29321
installation view Locks Gallery 2013 ©V. Yeşiltaç
- Locks Gallery |
- 600 Washington Square South, Philadelphia, PA 19106 |
- 215-629-1000 |
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