Finally it’s finish! Please come to the show and check it out!
May 26 – July 2, 2011
opening reception Thursday, May 26, 2011 6-8pm
POSTMASTERS GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT YOU WITH A TRIPLE TREAT OF TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND AN OUTDOOR PROJECT ON THE FAÇADE OF OUR BUILDING:
Gallery 1:
KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages
Gallery 2:
SALLY SMART
Flaubert’s Puppets
Façade:
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
xCLINIC FARMACY
Gallery 1:
KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages
In his new exhibition The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung takes on the increasingly pervasive, draconian censorship of the Internet in China and Chinese government restrictions of freedom of expression. Through a series of dense collages, a video animation, and a sculpture of a ping-pong table where the net is replaced by a model of The Great Wall of China, Hung delivers a visual battlefield of biting political satire. Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era.” Like Hartfield, who developed photomontage technique and turned it into a form of social critique, Hung’s meticulously researched works, composed entirely of imagery appropriated from online sources, expose injustice, corruption and hypocrisy, reflect on a call for social change, and direct attention to issues of today, which are bound to have historical impact. Tin-Kin Hung was born in Hong Kong and now lives in New York.
More information: http://www.tinkin.com/arts/the-travelogue-of-dr-brain-damages/
Gallery 2:
SALLY SMART
Flaubert’s Puppets
Australian artist Sally Smart is known for her large-scale collage installations applied directly to the gallery wall. She works with a range of media, including painted canvas and felt cut-outs, photographic elements, and printed fabric. The pins and joins that connect her work remain exposed to the viewer, emphasizing the performative process Smart undergoes in the cutting, drawing, and assembly of her work. Flaubert’s Puppets (Femmage), Smart’s third solo exhibition at Postmasters, explores the ideas of the feminine identity, performance, and nature. The wall installation will be accompanied by a series of framed, collaged drawings. In Flaubert’s Puppets the cut-out, hybridized figures, legs, arms, and swishing skirts fall apart and come together to accentuate movement. The images, inscribed with marks and notations, reference choreographers’ drawings and reflect on the performative process of Smart’s static yet dynamic installation.
The word Femmage was used by the American feminist and theorist, Miriam Shapiro in 1976 to describe work traditionally made by women, and the multitude of techniques, including collage, photomontage and embroidery, that women have used; Femmage for Smart is a term used to describe the idea of women’s relationship (historical and contemporary) to the art making process and the connections to feminist politics (The use of materials –mostly fabric – is integral to the conceptual unfolding of Smart’s work, as is the act of cutting, pining, staining and stitching).
Façade:
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
xCLINIC FARMACY
The artist/engineer/activist/experimenter extraordinaire, Natalie Jeremijenko, will turn Postmasters’ façade green. She will conduct a clinical trial of xClinic’s Farmacy, a distributed urban farm aimed at encouraging urban food production, diversifying food systems and improving environmental health. The vertical garden will be constructed with Jeremijenko-designed durable, efficient AgBags, in which edibles will be grown and then sold at the green market throughout the summer.
Postmasters Gallery located at 459 West 19th Street between 9 and 10 Avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 – 6
Please contact Magdalena Sawon or Paulina Bebecka with questions and image requests postmasters@thing.net
www.postmastersart.com
