William Powhida "After the Contemporary" at THE ALDRICH MUSEUM
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Channel: jameskalm · 2017 · Entertainment
James Kalm begins the thirteenth season of the”Kalm Report” with a visit to Connecticut’s Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and a strolling tour through William Powhida’s “After the Contemporary”. As an early champion and longtime follower of Powhida’s work, your correspondent has seen the progression of this artist from his days as a Hunter Collage grad student to this, his first major museum exhibition and retrospective. Based on the artist’s comically dystopic vision of the commercial art world, and a pessimistic view of the general course of mankind’s future, this show features large hand drawn text critiques disguised as gallery explanations, a simulation of an art fair booth, and altered magazine pages featuring truly horrific possible happenings. These fantasy descriptions are seen from the perspective of a world devastated by greed and global environmental destruction in 2050. Few cultural producers are spared the cynical barbs, and blame of this audacious critique. http://williampowhida.com/wordpress/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powhida
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