"Notes on Cultural Preservation" Exhibition
Nicholas Robinson Gallery
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Nicholas Robinson Gallery presents Notes on Cultural Preservation, an exhibition curated by Jeffrey Uslip, which consists of three discrete solo exhibitions that offer diverse interpretations of Icon within the framework of contemporary visual culture. Through an epistemological lens, Ivaylo Gueorgiev, Mark Verabioff, and Robert Zungu translates how histories, narratives and legacies are unlocked and repositioned in the canon. These artists aim to signify reparations within the collective cultural imaginary and reveal how Icons retain relevance through transmutation.
Born in Bulgaria, Ivaylo Gueorgiev explores Iconoclasm through seven case studies, each a photorealistic facsimile of a masterpiece vandalized between the years 1914 and 1991. Gueorgiev's recent body of work explores how the destruction of masterpieces, known as ‘crimes against art,’ emblematize an attacker's desire for political, religious, and social change.
Mark Verabioff's signature ‘dartboards’ are composed of two elements: a stream-of-consciousness phrase and Widdy darts.
The text, installed on the wall in vinyl lettering, is punctuated by darts stabbed directly into the gallery walls. These linguistic dartboards employ language that sutures art historical vernacular with queer lexicon. Verabioff's dartboards, which originally began as guerrilla actions in gay bars, motel rooms, and urban graffiti, equalize the rhetoric of celebrity, politics,and contemporary art.
Robert Zungu presents three disparate artworks that each explore contemporary constructions of transience and reference the museum in ruins. These works present an in-depth examination of environmental conservation, the aesthetics of decay,and a historiographic analysis of the Icon: past, present, and future.
[Image: Ivaylo Gueorgiev, “You Can Get Another Picture,” (2008) Oil On Canvas 41 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from May 22, 2008 to September 04, 2008