 h.b.p. Adam Ames, Adriana Arenas Ilian, François Bucher, Linda Cummings, Hilda Daniels, Peter Dudek, Amy Eshoo, Douglas Gillock, Anthony Goicolea, Peter Gould, Christopher K. Ho, Anna Sew Hoy, Timothy Hutchings, Nick Kline, Larry Krone, Jason Middlebrook, Lucas Monaco, Jonathan Podwil, Anton Vidokle, Micki Watanabe, Mark Williams Smack Mellon is pleased to present a group exhibition entitled "h.b.p.", curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and organized by Mauricio Laffitte-Soler. The artists selected show work that reveals different visions on aspects of American culture and society. "h.b.p." is the articulation of a critical distance regarding the cultural self-imaging of the United States of America. What is meant by "self imaging" is the process by which a culture presents itself in the symbolic-not to say political-world order. This is the land of the image; in the age of the banal and the artificial, in its recurrent fictitious claim to authenticity. "h.b.p." is a kind of reportage on the brink of that fiction; a position of distance that intends to break the omnipresent blur of cultural products. What is saved, at all costs, is a solid principle of reality, a unified sense of the word "American". This exhibition is part of a continuing investigation of the subject by the curator and the artists. Ausstellungsdauer: 15.6. - 21.7.2002 Oeffnungszeiten: Mi-SO 12 - 18 Uhr Smack Mellon 56 Water Street (dumbo) Brooklyn, NY 11201 Telefon (office) +1 718 422 0989 Fax (gallery) +1 718 834 8761 www.smackmellon.org |
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