Friday, February 12, 2010
Art The New Museum's Epic Press Release for Controversial Dakis Joannou Show
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:21 PM
But why "Skin Fruit"?
Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the exhibition will spotlight the age-old preoccupation with the human form as a vessel of and vehicle for experience.
Ok. That makes sense, what will we see in this show about bodies?
This part, when the press release breaks radically from typical forms of artspeak and goes biblical, is my favorite:
Role-playing games and dramas occur: a man will stage a religious ritual; a sculpture literally sings out; white chocolate monuments tower above visitor’s heads; voracious creatures eat themselves and each other while bodies are buried or frozen; icons and deities are adored or dethroned.
Consider yourself warned: Shit will be crazy.
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