Artists: Barbora Kleinhamplová and Jan Brož, John Russell, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Paul Thek
Exhibition title: Against Interpretation
Curated by: Adriana Blidaru
Venue: 265 Canal Street, New York, US
Date: December 15 – 21, 2016
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists
“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art” [1]
The presented works use the exhibition’s context to play on each others’ irreducibility to a single interpretation. Although Form and Meaning are negotiated internally within each art work, a non-interpretive act on the viewer’s side is encouraged. Thus, to look beyond representation and feel beyond interpretation, in order to shake the ground of centralized meaning, and to move towards a more empirical ground.
Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”, ( New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1966), http://shifter-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sontag- Against- Interpretation.pdf
Paul Thek, Sea Series, 1975
Enamel on Newspaper, 22.8 x 33.1 inches
Paul Thek, Editions, 1975- 1992
Etchings on Twinrocker Paper
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Top Knot, 2015
Cast bronze, lanyard, beads, 20h x 8w x 6d inches
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Top Knot, 2015
Cast bronze, lanyard, beads, 20h x 8w x 6d inches
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Hungry Baby Birds, 2016
Cast bronze, enamel, cast resin, 101 x 10w x 4h inches
Mindy Rose Schwartz, Hungry Baby Birds, 2016
Cast bronze, enamel, cast resin, 101 x 10w x 4h inches
John Russell, Aquarium Proletarium, 2014, Video 45’ 00’’
John Russell, Aquarium Proletarium, 2014, Video 45’ 00’’
John Russell, Aquarium Proletarium, 2014, Video 45’ 00’’
Jan Brož & Barbora Kleinhamplovà, More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, 2016, 4’36”, digital video
Jan Brož & Barbora Kleinhamplovà, More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, 2016, 4’36”, digital video
Jan Brož & Barbora Kleinhamplovà, More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, 2016, 4’36”, digital video
Jan Brož & Barbora Kleinhamplovà, More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, 2016, 4’36”, digital video
Jan Brož & Barbora Kleinhamplovà, More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, 2016, 4’36”, digital video
Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, A document made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, 1969, Publication. (Re-edition of 500 copies published by Edwin Klein, Amsterdam and Alexander and Bonin, New York in 2011)
Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, A document made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, 1969, Publication. (Re-edition of 500 copies published by Edwin Klein, Amsterdam and Alexander and Bonin, New York in 2011)