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Friday, September 25, 2009

Visual Art On Going Home Again

Posted by on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:19 PM

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Western Bridge's major new show Parenthesis, on the subjects of parents and children, opens tomorrow (noon-6), and yesterday I got a sneak peek of it underway.

The gallery hasn't been reconfigured so dramatically in years (ever?). Leading the reconstruction is theater designer/Stranger Genius Jennifer Zeyl, who rebuilt the entrance of her childhood home in Kingston, Rhode Island, as an entrance to the show.

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When you walk through, you will come to a living room transplanted from upstairs (not yet built as of this picture), a wall built by a father-and-son-team by Miami artist Bert Rodriguez (seen recently, built by a different father-and-son team, in Lawrimore Project's Spite House), and this 120-percent-scale staircase (you are reduced to kid-size) that leads to an upstairs gallery featuring Guy Ben-Ner's Stealing Beauty, a family drama video shot in the pricetag-dripping domestic environments at various IKEA stores.

Other works in the show include the amazing father-daughter video Here & Elsewhere by Kerry Tribe in the back room.

 

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I am such a fan of tidy, austere exhibits; as a curator, and such a fan of structures made out of mud by Kim Jones; as an art appreciator/absorber. An everlasting austerity at WB!
Posted by Paul Pauper on September 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM

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