Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 5 September 2014
BUZZ SPECTOR: New Work
September 5 – October 11, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5th from 5:00 to 9:00 pm
Bruno David is delighted to present a special exhibition New Work by Buzz Spector. The opening reception for the artist will be Friday, September 5, 2014 from 5 to 9 pm.
Buzz Spector’s excavations of books and reconstructions of libraries are well-known, but his work with found and altered volumes has always been accompanied by works on paper made out of elements from their dust jackets. As Spector has written, “books are formal presentations of text. They have titles, after all, and come jacketed, with paragraphs of introduction slipped between their covers and their pages.” This new work features collages made from dust jacket elements in the front gallery, while in the main gallery will be larger collages and drawings, a series of wall-mounted sculptures incorporating details of photographs of authors, plus a reinstallation of Frieze, the 60’ long arrangement of photos of authors Spector showed at the Huntington Museum of Art last fall. Spector’s ongoing meditation on reading and the culture of the book extends here to reflections on how—and when—writers become authors, how work of the imagination is performed via posing, and how the specialized, but also highly conventional, language of dust jacket blurbs can itself be excavated in search of new narrative meanings.
In the New Media Room, the gallery presents a new video work by Buzz Spector, “Selected Poems.”
Hours: Wed-Sat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
BRUNO DAVID GALLERY
3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108 USA
1-314-531-3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
September 5 – October 11, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5th from 5:00 to 9:00 pm
Bruno David is delighted to present a special exhibition New Work by Buzz Spector. The opening reception for the artist will be Friday, September 5, 2014 from 5 to 9 pm.
Buzz Spector’s excavations of books and reconstructions of libraries are well-known, but his work with found and altered volumes has always been accompanied by works on paper made out of elements from their dust jackets. As Spector has written, “books are formal presentations of text. They have titles, after all, and come jacketed, with paragraphs of introduction slipped between their covers and their pages.” This new work features collages made from dust jacket elements in the front gallery, while in the main gallery will be larger collages and drawings, a series of wall-mounted sculptures incorporating details of photographs of authors, plus a reinstallation of Frieze, the 60’ long arrangement of photos of authors Spector showed at the Huntington Museum of Art last fall. Spector’s ongoing meditation on reading and the culture of the book extends here to reflections on how—and when—writers become authors, how work of the imagination is performed via posing, and how the specialized, but also highly conventional, language of dust jacket blurbs can itself be excavated in search of new narrative meanings.
In the New Media Room, the gallery presents a new video work by Buzz Spector, “Selected Poems.”
Hours: Wed-Sat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
BRUNO DAVID GALLERY
3721 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
SAINT LOUIS MO 63108 USA
1-314-531-3030
info@brunodavidgallery.com
WWW.BRUNODAVIDGALLERY.COM
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