“Metallica” Exhibition

Foxy Production

poster for “Metallica” Exhibition

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Foxy Production presents Metallica, a group exhibition about the aura and history of fine metals; it includes work by LaKela Brown, ektor garcia, and Ronny Quevedo.

Extracted from the earth, metals are refined, reformed, transacted, and valued. They can tell stories of power, prestige, oppression, and resistance.

“Without the love of virtue gold is a dangerous and harmful guest, but when it is associated with virtue, it becomes the source and height of good.”

Sappho (630 – c. 570 BC) is quoted above in De Re Metallica (On the Nature of Metals) (1556) by German scholar Georgious Agricola. His book is a both a philosophical argument for and an illustrated manual on mining and metallurgy. It was written at a time when alchemy and superstition were being challenged by the rational, scientific ideas of the Renaissance. Agricola’s book promoted, often in poetic terms, Europe’s thirst for fine metals, providing both the technology and rationale that fed both industrialization and colonization.

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from January 24, 2020 to March 01, 2020

Opening Reception on 2020-01-24 from 18:00 to 20:00

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