Damaged Romanticism

November 08 - November 15,2008

The pathetic aesthetic returns? Former Blaffer director Terrie Sultan, critic David Pagel and critical theorist Colin Gardner use the work of fifteen contemporary artists to illustrate "an aftermath aesthetic" and the "recognition that virgin births are fantasies, that blank slates are not found but actually involve lots of often violent erasing, and that starting fresh is more like starting over." With a global spread of artists Including Richard Billingham, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Calle, Petah Coyne, Angelo Filomeno, Jesper Just, Florian Maier-Aichen, Mary McCleary, Wangechi Mutu, Anneè Olofsson, Julia Oschatz, David Schnell and Ryan Taber/Cheyenne Weaver, it promises to be an eclectic mishmash of styles and media, filtered through a thick critical sieve.

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