Thomas Hirschhorn “Universal Gym”
Gladstone Gallery (Chelsea 21th Street)
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Known for sprawling works that transform traditional white cube spaces into absorbing environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism, Thomas Hirschhorn engages the viewer through superabundance. Combining found imagery and texts, bound up in low-tech constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, he props imagistic assaults in a DIY-fashion that correlates to the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload designed to simulate our own process of grappling with the excess of information in daily life.
For this exhibition, Hirschhorn will convert the gallery space into a universal gym, recasting fitness equipment and anatomical models into an apparatus of social critique.
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Schedule
from February 13, 2009 to April 11, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-02-12 from 18:00 to 20:00