Beauty is in the Streets
Ninja April 25th, 2007
My old prof, Gerry Beegan, is curating an upcoming show. Go check it out!
Beauty is in the Streets
Curated by Gerry Beegan
Opening reception Wednesday May 9, 5 to 7 p.m.
Mason Gross Galleries
Beauty is in the Streets is inspired by questions about the power and diffusion of the printed image. The show juxtaposes a private collection of posters of Che Guevara with work by contemporary artists and designers produced in response. One of the inspirations for the show is Susan Sontag’s seminal essay Posters: Advertisement, Art, Political Artifact, Commodity.
The artists and designers involved include Anton Vidokle, Aleksandra Mir, Carrie Moyer, Stefan Saffer, Experimental Jet Set, Henry VIII’s Wives, Pedro Lasch and Josh McPhee. In addition to image-making, the artists’ work encompasses wall text, animation, performance, interventions in public spaces as well as a collaboration with students from New Brunswick High School and graphics undergrads.
The show is inspired by questions about the power and diffusion of the printed image and involves a poster collection and work by artists and designers produced in response to these images. The posters are a private collection of Che Guevara posters. By juxtaposing these designed objects with pieces made in response to them, Beegan hopes to explore some of the complexities involved in placing designed objects in a gallery, or indeed in a collection. The show will be traveling to the Bronx River Art Center in New York in the spring and Ellen Lupton at MICA is also interested in taking it.
Interestingly enough, the Dutch designers Experimental Jetset are one of the contributors and are notorious for only using Helvetica in their work, which is mainly type based. Well, for the upcoming show, they will be doing their first ever (as far as I know) non-Helvetica piece! Which will also be entirely image based, shock-horror!
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