"The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality" Exhibition
Exit Art
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In "The Labyrinth Wall," 50 artists will respond to the turbulent times in which we live, the complex— and often confusing— financial, military, and cultural crises in America. Exit Art will be reconfigured into a labyrinth constructed of fifty 8’ x 8’ panels, each a response by an artist to the metaphor of the labyrinth. Each panel offers instructions on how to escape the issues we are confronted with. The labyrinth serves as a metaphor for the vexing, tangled problems that America, under a hopeful new presidential administration, must now navigate. In Greek mythology, the labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed by Daedalus to hold the Minotaur for King Minos of Crete. The labyrinth was so serpentine and difficult to navigate that Daedalus himself could barely find his way out. Today, America seems to have found itself at the center of a metaphorical labyrinth. We’ve become so deeply trapped in an economic and political maze that our situation seems impossible to escape. The wall is also a representation of a political barrier, used for either fortification or segregation such as the Berlin Wall or Great Wall of China, or as a form of communication, such as the activities of Chinese Democracy activists in the late 70s on what became known as the ‘Democracy Wall.’
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Schedule
from December 14, 2008 to February 07, 2009
Exit Art will be open to the public to see the artists working on the Labyrinth beginning Tuesday, December 9, 2008.
Opening Reception on 2008-12-14 from 15:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Josh Abram Howard, Madeleine Arthurs, Francisca Benitez, Liz Brown, Luis Camnitzer, Tyler Coburn, Michael Combs, Ernest Concepcion, Anton van Dalen, Iliana Emilia Garcia, Mike Estabrook, John Fekner and Don Leicht, Scherezade Garcia, Rico Gatson, Guerra de la Paz, Peter Hildebrand, Vandana Jain and Doris Caciolo, Charles Juhasz-Alvarado, Jayson Keeling, Fawad Khan, Matthew Kirk, Christopher Knowles, Charles Koegel, Peter Kuper, Joan Linder, Miguel Luciano, Yucef Mehri, Bryan Mesenbourg, Paul Miller, Marcus Morales, Irvin Morazan, Rune Olsen, Beau Ree, Rudy Royval, Jacolby Satterwhite, Seher Shah, Dan Tague, Lynne Yamamoto and Lucretia Knapp, Heeseop Yoon, Daniel Zeller