Marc Séguin “I Love America and America Loves Me”
Mike Weiss Gallery
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Mike Weiss Gallery presents Marc Séguin’s third solo show with the gallery, I Love America and America Loves Me. The title references Joseph Beuys’ definitive 1974 performance where Beuys spent three days in a room with a coyote after being transported from the airport while blindfolded and not once touching American soil. He explained, “I want to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.” This experimental sentiment is echoed in Séguin’s recent painted snapshots of America, reflecting on the prerogatives of our cultural empire and the right of individuality we use as a defense for our actions. Each painting, primarily in oil and often supplemented with soft charcoal, uses devices and visual tools to separate the storied, social, and cultural identity of the subjects from what is hiding beneath the surface - leaving the good, the bad, and the ugly as memento mori.
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from January 15, 2015 to March 07, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-15 from 18:00 to 20:00