George Herms Exhibition
Susan Inglett Gallery
This event has ended.
Susan Inglett presents the work of George Herms in his second solo presentation with the Gallery.
George Herms emerged in the Sixties as a primary figure of the California assemblage movement, a movement which at its heart sought to unify art with life. In a rejection of precious or traditional art making materials and rigid compositions, Herms wove a new world order redeeming civilization's refuse with a fresh eye and poet's touch. This exhibition continues the mission in both two and three dimensions. Where the sculptural assemblages are comprised of physical objects, the detritus of a consumer society, the collages are pieced together from pumped up bits of Madison Avenue simulacra. Cause and effect. The collages are drawn from Herms recent exhibition "Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown)" at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Los Angeles, an exhibition which identifies Herms "as the Godfather of the spiritual unknown", drawing a line between his work and that of a younger generation of assemblagists and anti-establishment renegades. Herms' work is one which continues to bring the world's flotsam and jetsam together in surprisingly elegant opposition, an impulse which continues to drive artists today.
[Image: George Herms "Xenophilia" (2011) "Collage" 22 by 28 in.]
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Schedule
from December 01, 2011 to January 21, 2012
Opening Reception on 2011-12-09 from 18:00 to 20:00