“Nobles & Savages” Exhibition
La MaMa La Galleria
[Image: Dionisios Fragias "Bad Shepherd" (video still) (2014) HD video with stereo sound, RT: 7’ 24, Edition of 25, Courtesy the Artist and RARE Gallery, New York © 2014 Dionisios Fragias]
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La MaMa Galleria in partnership with RARE Gallery presents Nobles & Savages, a group exhibition featuring works by three artists represented by RARE: Johnston Foster, Dionisios Fragias, and Eamon O’Kane. Their works, to be exhibited at La Galleria’s new space at 47 Great Jones Street in New York City, reference the noble side of man as well as a darker side that often obscures and interferes with his better instincts.
Foster’s morphed, distorted creatures, made from discarded materials the artist collects from the streets, serve as a warning of what can become of us if we lose all respect for our environment. Fragias’ video Bad Shepherd transforms the symbol of the Arcadian shepherd of classical antiquity into a well-dressed, time-conscious contemporary business executive. Strolling along Manhattan’s 5th Avenue with a lamb’s head in a clear shopping bag, he is an overt critique of society’s propensity for over-consumption, self-absorption, and greed. The architectural and design-based drawings of O’Kane remind us of the utopia that Modernism once promised but never delivered. O’Kane’s affection for this missed opportunity is evident, even though man was the root cause of Modernism’s failure to elicit social change.
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Schedule
from April 09, 2015 to May 09, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-09 from 18:00 to 21:00