PRESS
RELEASE
Illuminated
Metropolis Gallery is pleased to present a group show "The New
Banalists" curated by Rupert Goldsworthy, featuring work by
Christopher Brooks, Rupert Goldsworthy, Gerald Pryor, and Mark
Stewart.
The
show runs from February 2nd- 25th, 2012. There will be an opening
reception and performances at the gallery on Thursday, February 2nd,
from 6-8pm.
BANALIST
MANIFESTO :
We
Are The New Banalists
Taste
Is A Form of Personal Censorship
Deny
The Politics of Envy
Technique
Is A Refuge of The Insecure
For
this show at Illuminated Metropolis, Goldsworthy and Pryor will
premiere new performances at the exhibition opening, Brooks will show
a painting, Stewart and Goldsworthy will show a collaborative
wall-piece, and both Pryor and Goldsworthy create installations
utilizing photography and sculpture.
Christopher
Brooks is a British, New York-based painter who often works in enamel
paint. Invoking modernist establishments such as the asylum,
hospital, clinic, prison and museum, his hard-edged geometry and
institutional colors simultaneously invite and reject the human
content they propose.
Rupert
Goldsworthy is a British, New York-based artist, known for artist-run
projects in Berlin, London and New York. Goldsworthy's paintings and
installations address political and emotional taboos. His concerns
include the Cold War, colonial history, and the iconography of
Seventies radicalism. Goldsworthy has concurrent exhibitions at
Galeria Massimo Audiello, Mexico City, and Ritter/Zamet Gallery,
London.
Gerald
Pryor makes performative work, often using his body in relation to
architecture. Body rubbings or a silhouette are made on photographs
and remain. Pryor has had recent work at Red Star Gallery in Beijing
and Newark Open Doors in Newark, New Jersey.
Mark
Stewart: Exploding the myth of culture since scandalising Kunstforum
with HITLERS SECRET DAUGHTER in Vienna, Stewart has recently worked
with Kenneth Anger at the Servalles Foundation in Porto, been artist
in residence at Western Front Vancouver and is preparing a Tokyo
retrospective. As co-founder of the New Banalists with Rupert
Goldsworthy, Stewart was the first truly viral artist with
cross-platform provocations as a sound artist/montagist and general
prankster. His work has been aligned to King Mob, the Dutch Provos
and the Viennese Actionists.
On
Christopher Brooks:
"For
Brooks it is the fear of becoming bogged down in literal,
metaphorical and emotional shit, that motivates the antiseptic
virtues of modernist abstraction."
-Neville
Wakefield, curator and writer.
On
Rupert Goldsworthy:
"Sharp,
dark, hard to pin down... Names of suicidal rock stars, student
radicals, celebrity drugs, Black Panthers, gay clubs and aged movie
queens with sad, twilight histories bounce off each other and
interconnect like fragments of overheard conversations. And while the
textual melange – blasts from the past plus cultural arcana –makes
fun 'reading', it also has a distinctive moral texture."
-Holland
Cotter chief art critic for The New York Times.
On
Gerald Pryor:
"That
was the best performance I have ever seen."
-Li
Liang, director of Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai,
on
Pryor's Body Slam, a World Trade Center Event.
On
Mark Stewart:
"...in
search of forbidden marriages between alien forms."
-The
Wire
For
further information, please contact the gallery by telephone at (212)
946 1685, or via email at illuminatedmetropolisgallery@gmail.com
Illuminated Metropolis Gallery
547 W. 27th St, Suite 529 New York NY 10001
GALLERY HOURS: Friday 1 - 5 pm, Saturday 12 - 6 pm
www.illuminatedmetropolis.com
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