Art Opening: Looking For the Face I Had Before The World Was Made
Like six strangers locked in a room together, the work of six artists currently showing in the MCA Denver's exhibit: Looking For the Face I Had Before The World Was Made, attempt to find something in common to talk about. Approaching the conversation with disparate styles, and from differing locals and era's, the group is left to discuss their mutual choice of universalized subject matter - the unidentified human form. In their archetypal and often nondescript depictions of people and personalities, the six artists, William Stockman, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, A.G. Rizzoli, Sam Beckett, and Michaël Borremans, enter into a conversation hinged on generality in order to keep everyone engaged.
Still, the desire to identify seems only diverted rather than subdued, as the inidividual perspective and personality of each artist rises to take the place of the variously depicted John and Jane Doe's. What results is a collective search for the pre-"me" person, with each search party member raising their face to the other saying "Here I am!"
Looking For The Face I Had Before The World Was Made opens January 29 (Tonight!) at the MCA Denver 1485 Delgany Denver, CO 80202 (303) 298-7554
(Above) Michaël Borremans. Ghost (III) (detail), 2009, oil on canvas.
Samuel Beckett. Not I (detail), 1972, from Beckett on Film, 2001, Director: Neil Jordan.
Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, Monochromes (SCU.020) (detail), 2009.
Lorraine O'Grady. Progress of Queens, Left: Devonia, age 36; Right: Nefertiti, age 36, 1980/1994, cibachrome prints, 26 x 37 in (66 x 94 cm), edition of 8 with 1 AP.
A. G. Rizzoli. Alfredo Capobianco and Family Symbolically Sketched/Palazzo del Capobianco (detail), 1937, ink on rag paper, 25 x 38 in (63.5 x 96.5 cm).
William Stockman, Thursday, November 5th, 2009 (detail), 2009, conte on paper with debossed date stamp, 72 x 78 in (182.9 x 198.1).
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