"Commodity / Fetish" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery
This event has ended.
Miguel Abreu Gallery announces the opening of "Commodity / Fetish", a group exhibition organized by Nicolás Guagnini.
Fetishes entered the West during colonialism, a historical period in which capitalism expanded through slavery. Portugese sailors and traders introduced the word "fetiço" as a name for charms and talismans worshipped by the inhabitants of the Guinea coast of Africa. C. de Brosses' "Le Culte des Dieux Fétiches" (1760) popularized the term in anthropology, which influenced the word's spelling in English and French. In the figurative sense, “fetish” means something irrationally revered. A material object in which force is supposed to be concentrated is a fetish.
[Image: Hans Bellmer "Composition" (1934) Vintage gelatin silver print 8 7/8 x 6 in.]
Media
Schedule
from March 13, 2011 to April 10, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-13 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Hans Bellmer, Robert Heinecken, Richard Prince, Nicolás Guagnini, Sam Lewitt