"On the Pleasure of Hating" Exhibition
Lisa Cooley Fine Art
This event has ended.
“Nature seems (the more we look into it) made up of antipathies: without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action. Life would turn to a stagnant pool, were it not ruffled by the jarring interests, the unruly passions, of men. The white streak in our own fortunes is brightened (or just rendered visible by making all around it as dark as possible; so the rainbow paints its form upon the cloud. Is it pride? Is it envy? Is it the force of contrast? Is it weakness or malice? But so it is, that there is a secret affinity, a hankering after, evil in the human mind, and that it takes a perverse, but a fortunate delight in mischief, since it is a never-failing source of satisfaction. Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, wants variety and spirit. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal."
-William Hazlitt, 1823
The Plain Speaker
[Image: Josh Faught, "Triage," 2009. Hemp, nail polish, spray paint, indigo, logwood, toilet paper, greeting cards, pins, books, plaster, yarn, hand made wooden sign, denim, and gloves. 80 x 120"]
Media
Schedule
from July 09, 2009 to August 23, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-07-09 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Josh Faught, Dario Robleto, Nicolas Lobo, Shana Lutker, Simone Leigh, Mike Quinn
Reviews
A Time to Hate: an Interview with Curator David Hunt
NYAB catches up with David at Lisa Cooley Fine Art to discuss how his current show's theme of schadenfreude applies to the blogosphere and the state of the art world in a retrograde economy.