Iké Udé "Self New Photographs"
57 STUX + HALLER Gallery
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Thomas Carlyle describes the dandy as “a clothes-wearing man, a man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of clothes wisely and well.”
According to Iké, “Dandyism is also the significance of sartorial distinction enhanced by indeterminate delicacy of pose, gestures, tilt, determinate lines, or a thrust here-and-there, all harmonized by an agreeable countenance. Yet, it is precisely in isolating the various parts (as seen in his very own four self portraits on view) that we see the overall process and resultant composition of a dandiacal machine. The incongruous pairing of the familiar: (a straw boater garnished with flowers, football-socks, English-shoes, Boy Scout shirt), with relatively unfamiliar items (eighteenth century neckwear, vintage wool-breeches, Afghani folk-coat) is where dandyism can be stoked, problematized, renewed and appreciated as a protean plastic art”.
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Schedule
from May 19, 2011 to June 25, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-19 from 18:00 to 20:00