Marshall Weber "Yesterday is Dead"
Munch Gallery
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Munch Gallery announces two solo exhibitions: Rose Eken (DK), ‘Love is the Drug’ and Marshall Weber (US), ‘Yesterday is Dead’. While Eken is concerned with the structures of love, coupling and hero worship, Weber, on the other hand, attempts to deface nostalgia by dismantling personal items and past relations. Both artists will be present at the opening reception, wednesday the 9th.
Marshall Weber (e-mail to the Guillemots, November 29, 2012)
Dear Guillemots,
Your song “Yesterday is Dead”, in confluence with events in my life, has inspired some artworks of mine. Typographic interpretations of excerpts from the song appear in the artwork. The work will be premiered at Munch Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in January.
There are 18 original photo-collages, 9 by 13 3/4 inches, with stencil cut outs and stencil spray-paint, and I plan on making an accordion fold print/book in an edition of 20. I will credit the band and can also credit a specific writer if anyone desires.
The photographs were taken by me and my sister Raimie Weber in New England, USA and Cuba from the 1970’s through the 1990’s (and some photos of Egypt from unknown sources) , I have used an old stencil machine from the 1920’s to cut excerpts of the lyric of the song into the actual photos and rearranged all the resulting bits and pieces.
My idea was to destroy nostalgia, I was not exactly successful, but its a start. I know that artistic license covers this usage but I also feel like I want to thank you for your great song. So if you want to use any of these images please do, I can send you much larger digital versions if you like. Its a barter situation.
I’ll send a few samples now, as you may not care a bit for any of this and I don’t want to chunk up your email. In any case I hope all can be copacetic and I am interested in your responses if you have a moment, if not I’ll totally understand.
peace,
Marshall Weber
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Schedule
from January 09, 2013 to February 03, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-01-09 from 19:00 to 21:00