Don Netzer: The Lethal Beauty of Violence

June 24 - August 12,2023

From PDNB: "Can the words, “Beauty” and “Violence” work together? When we look at a painting, for example, Pablo Picasso’s, Guernica, we can see beauty in Picasso’s depiction of the 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German and Italian bombers during the Spanish Civil War. Or maybe there is beauty in a Venus fly-trap plant, designed to kill in a subtle, menacing manner. PDNB Gallery presents an exhibition of Don Netzer’s photographs depicting sleek, streamlined cartridges, presented as portraits, the artist’s specialty. The magnified images of these projectiles elicit a response of danger and perhaps awe in the design. The cartridge contains the explosive charge and the bullet that, when loaded into a weapon, becomes the lethal component. But the portrait discloses a note of fact in the text below the subject. The viewer discovers the cartridge is related to a particular mass shooting, i.e., Robb Elementary School, Uvalde Texas, May 24, 2022, .223 inch cartridge, 21 killed. America is dealing with mass shootings almost on a daily basis. There seems to be no solution to this epidemic. Serious dialogue needs to happen in order to prevent or hopefully cease these grisly attacks. Don Netzer starts the discussion with a single brass case that holds the lethal bullet that ends a life."

Reception: June 24, 2023 | 5-8 pm

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery (River Bend Location) 150 Manufacturing Street, Suite 203
Dallas, Texas 75207
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