This show opens Thursday, October 16th. For those who will be in the New York Area in the next month, please stop by and check out the show! I hope I can see many of you at the opening!
Jenny
www.jennywaltonart.com
Tamara Kostianovsky, Elegy,
clothing, meat hook, chain, 2008
Betty Hirst, Head II, Meat, 2008
Zhang Huan,
My New York, Performance Whitney Biennial, 2002
Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry
16 October - 15 November
opening reception:
Thursday 16 October, 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Sheffy Bleier, Lauren Bockow, Adam Brandejs, Tania Bruguera, Nezaket Ekici,
Anthony Fisher, Betty Hirst, Zhang Huan, Tamara Kostianovsky, Simone Racheli, David Raymond, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneemann, Stephen j Shanabrook, Jana Sterbak, Jenny Walton, Pina Yolacan
If the flesh disturbs you, then the reality behind the issue would disturb you far more if we opened our eyes long enough to see it. We live in a culture disconnected from what it is doing to itself and others, we choose to ignore rather than deal with the reality we have created for ourselves.
- Adam Brandejs
Meat After Meat Joy brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood - each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat's only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, the exhibition seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation...read more
- Heide Hatry
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