Sunday, July 15, 2007
"Role Exchange"
Sean Kelly
528 West 29th street, chelsea
June 24th through Aug. 3
Sean Kelly gallery was established in New York in 1991 by Britished –born Sean Kelly. At first, the gallery was started with a strong of six artists. The lager the gallery grew, the more roster artists the gallery had. Sean Kelly gallery has been included in international exhibitions and held sixty solo exhibitions and fifteen group shows in its spaces, and the gallery has many international experiences that coordinate with famous museums. The exhibitions at the gallery are often challenging and unconventional, and there are various media like photography, video, and performance. Now, we have “Role exchange”, a group show at this gallery.
The role exchange show concerns about questions of identity and role- playing and changes of traditional roles. These interesting ideas of show are created by fictional personas, especially in camera-based work. This exhibition shows from June 29th to August 3rd. There are twenty-seven artists since the late 1960s, and they are separated into four groups to explain about identity. One of the groups expresses traditional gender roles, and another group presents basic family relationships. A third group examines identity by introducing the use of imaginary characters, and the last group inhibits characters that are blurred the real and the hypothetical. For example, Marina Abramovic transforms places with Amsterdam prostitute, and Leigh Bowery in the last group strikes the eye of lizard- green satin and falling blue paint from the top of the head in a photograph by Fergus Greer. The exhibition looks different, but each group in the show expresses a process to find themselves. When I see the pictures, I recognize there are two parts of whole show, because some of the pictures look crazy and other pieces look easygoing. Especially, my attractive aspect of this show is the group expressing about the gender. “ Self portrait in drag” by Andy Warhol reminds me of the movie “Hedwig And The Angry Inch”, and I can rethink about the traditional husband and wife being roles by two women and two men. While we are looking at this exhibition, we can look back over our own identity.
http://www.skny.com/lasso-bin/home.lasso
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/arts/design/06gall.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=8bf677d9f4006589&ex=1184644800
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After I read your statement and attached references, I realize you precisely and lucidly inform us about Sean Kelly gallery and ongoing show. You lead viewers to what they focus on in this exhibition. For example, you describe this show in both sides: general and personal viewpoint. You mention this show divides four groups and also explain the exhibition separates two parts: crazy pictures and easygoing one. You introduce your interesting points in this show and guess how viewers think after they see this exhibition. Therefore, viewers can image what this exhibition happens. In fact, after I read your statement, this exhibition interests me.
On the other hand, you should describe more information about participating artists. Twenty-seven artists join in this show and separate four groups. I want to know who artists participate, why the curator selects these artists in this show, why the curator chooses this theme, role exchange, at this time and how artists separate four groups.Moreover, you might need to explain what fictional personas mean in this exhibition.
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