Philip Slein Gallery: Friday, 14 September 2007
A Post-Modern Peep Show at the Philip Slein Gallery
The land inhibited by Michael Krueger’s characters is a kind of Westworld; Lisa Bulawsky calls the place her characters inhabit Shiftland; Don Colley identifies the place inhabited by his characters as Coulrotopia. All three provide metaphors for the post-modern.
The root of the Post-Modern can be traced back to at least the First World War when the French linguist and father of Structuralism, Ferdinand de Saussure, precipitated an intellectual crisis by explaining how language undermines itself. Lacan said, “The slightest alteration in the relation between man and the signifier changes the whole course of history … by modifying the lines which anchor his being.” The land underneath our feet is undermined --it drifts, it shifts like a clown trying to walk after being hit on the head with a giant hammer. It is an ongoing comic apocalypse, characterized by ridiculous costuming and misguided optimism.
Krueger, Bulawsky, and Colley are the printmakers whose job it is to depict the characters who inhabit this unsettling new world.
Friday, Sept. 14th 2007, Reception 6-9pm and runs through Oct. 6th
Tues.-Sat. 11am-4pm
Free and open to the public
The land inhibited by Michael Krueger’s characters is a kind of Westworld; Lisa Bulawsky calls the place her characters inhabit Shiftland; Don Colley identifies the place inhabited by his characters as Coulrotopia. All three provide metaphors for the post-modern.
The root of the Post-Modern can be traced back to at least the First World War when the French linguist and father of Structuralism, Ferdinand de Saussure, precipitated an intellectual crisis by explaining how language undermines itself. Lacan said, “The slightest alteration in the relation between man and the signifier changes the whole course of history … by modifying the lines which anchor his being.” The land underneath our feet is undermined --it drifts, it shifts like a clown trying to walk after being hit on the head with a giant hammer. It is an ongoing comic apocalypse, characterized by ridiculous costuming and misguided optimism.
Krueger, Bulawsky, and Colley are the printmakers whose job it is to depict the characters who inhabit this unsettling new world.
Friday, Sept. 14th 2007, Reception 6-9pm and runs through Oct. 6th
Tues.-Sat. 11am-4pm
Free and open to the public
The Philip Slein Gallery
1319 Washington Ave. Downtown St. Louis
314.621.4634
1319 Washington Ave. Downtown St. Louis
314.621.4634
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