Andrew Cornell Robinson “An Accidental Revolutionary… A Fruit Bowl Manifesto”

Christopher Stout Gallery

poster for Andrew Cornell Robinson “An Accidental Revolutionary… A Fruit Bowl Manifesto”

This event has ended.

Christopher Stout Gallery present a SOLO body of work by Andrew Cornell Robinson during the month of March 2016.

An Accidental Revolutionary… A Fruit Bowl Manifesto features the work of Andrew Cornell Robinson who has collaborated with a dozen different artists, designers, musicians, and a poet. Their inspiration comes from an inherent sense of play–a distinct sense of humor, the dangerous, poetic, rebellious and at times the absurd.

Robinson explores discordant assemblages of personality, memory and history through craft. The work is comprised of a ceremonial series of reliquaries, grottos, artifacts, photographs and agitprop from the personal to the poetic. Inspired by radical events loosely informed by memory and reimagined through the proxy of two personae based on historical and fictional characters that include Madame Thérèse Defarge, the villainess in Charles Dicken’s novel A Tale of Two Cities, Rene Stilitano, the object of affection in The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet and the French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat and his assassin Charlotte Corday. In contrast to Jacque-Louis David’s celebrated painting, Death of Marat, Robinson has combined historical and fictional narratives with his own memories of an activist past as a departure point to reimagine memory through independent works and creative collaborations with a jazz composer, a master print-maker, a costume designer, a poet, a product designer and many others. Each of these collaborations began with a conversation about a reimagined persona. They worked together to create artifacts, ideas, sounds and garments for. The resulting queer things are not easily defined. Robinson has sought out fringe story-lines, and diaristic visual fragments, attempting to pass as artifacts and heirlooms, ideas and agitprop as aesthetic signs and stories.

Participation, inspiration and collaboration and thanks to the following: Greg Climer, Paul D’Agostino, Richard Darlington, Jeffrey Goldstein, Julia Gorton, Sigfrido Holguin, Michael Kirk, Elias Paulson, Alex Reyes, Sarah Bonham Robinson, Renée Rockoff, Brett Sroka, Patty Suarez, Steve Turtell, Andy Wentz and the Parsons Print Shop. This exhibition is made possible in part by support from the New School and Parsons through a Research and Creative Practice Grant.

Media

Schedule

from March 11, 2016 to March 27, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-03-11 from 18:00 to 21:00

  • Facebook

    Reviews

    All content on this site is © their respective owner(s).
    New York Art Beat (2008) - About - Contact - Privacy - Terms of Use