Paul Brainard & Ulrike Theusner “Les Fleurs Du Mal”

The Lodge Gallery

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“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

— Charles Baudelaire, Conversation, Les Fleurs du Mal

Like Charles Baudelaire in his controversial 1857 volume of poetry Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), Ulrike Theusner and Paul Brainard explore the dark meanders of the human mind, the immoral side of urban life and the gross lack of empathy that continues to mar western culture. The depictions of sexual perversion, corruption, and mental and physical illness, so prevalent in Baudelaire’s poems, find their contemporary reflection in the drawings by Theusner and Brainard, who wade through the popular cultural imagery of what on the one hand is our subjective personal experience and on the other - the universal human condition. The exhibition features 25 drawings, three of which are collaborative works, built on ideas explored through Theusner and Brainard’s conversations about the condition of today’s urban culture.

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from November 06, 2014 to December 14, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-11-06 from 19:00 to 21:00

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