Daniel John Weiner "No Parking Funeral Today"
440 Gallery
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The 440 Gallery announces the second solo exhibition of Daniel John Weiner, No Parking Funeral Today. In this installation, Mr. Weiner aspires to work in the tradition of Wallace Berman, George Herms and Ray Johnson, making intimately scaled, highly personal assemblage and collage. In his 5th body of work since 2003, Weiner continues to seek out texts and objects with problematic correspondence to their intended context. He reads a college writing handbook as poetry, electrical diagrams as symbols of bad relationships and the nightstand becomes symbolic geography. The telephone is given especially dire significance because of its purported role in connecting people. The flexibility of contexts and outmoded methods of communication both reflect badly on the endeavor of self-expression. Weiner hopes to show that the act of communicating belies its purpose and is marked with the tragic solemnity of essential isolation. And this is the good news. The artist sees this condition as an ethical testing ground. He attempts to respond to the question of what can and should be said.
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Schedule
from October 22, 2009 to November 29, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-23 from 18:00 to 21:00