Gary Simmons "Night of the Fires"

Metro Pictures

poster for Gary Simmons "Night of the Fires"

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The 1972 film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the starting point for Gary Simmons' exhibition of paintings, drawings and monumental wall works. The film portrays apes enslaved by a repressive human society - the apes rebel and emerge victorious. An allegory of racial politics in America, specifically the 1965 Watts riots, it was shot in the Century City area of Los Angeles, where recently completed high-rises served as the perfect backdrop for the film's futuristic dystopia. In Simmons' works the buildings appear to be burning or disappearing as the artist employs his signature process of smudging and partially erasing the images. Similarly "erased" text-based paintings focus on related themes that point to historical conditions that persist in the present day.
Simmons has long explored social and political issues in his paintings, sculptures, drawings and site-specific installations creating works that are both powerful and poetic.

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from September 06, 2008 to September 04, 2008

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Gary Simmons

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