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Email PageA Child's Machiavelli Suite
September 13, 2007- October 13, 2007
Reception: September 13, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Claudia Hart
Andrew Edlin Gallery
529 W 20th StA Child's Machiavelli Suite by Claudia Hart Book, Paintings and Animations
This exhibition features the original group of thirty-one paintings that Hart conceived as imaginary pages for a first grade primer instructing the uninitiated on how to seize and hold on to power. A Child's Machiavelli: a primer on power would eventually be published in 3 languages and several editions (Penguin Books, Ltd, 1995,1998).
Hart's darkly comic and sweetly designed works-distilled from the Italian political philosopher's notorious sixteenth-century treatise - spell out strategies of manipulation and domination in simple, straightforward schoolyard language:
"The hardest job you can ever do is try and make things better for the Little Guys. The Big Guys are gonna hate your guts. And the Little Guys will be afraid to open their mouths."
In 1996, the song "Babyrap" appropriated Hart's texts in a musical collaboration with Assassin, the French hip-hop band. The work evolved into a commercial mode of production continually adapting to different platforms while staying true to the artist's concept and the aphorisms from Machiavelli's original "The Prince."
The last step in completing the cycle of production, after the paintings, book and music, would be a moving image to complete the possibility of a communal experience, an animated Machiavelli suite.
This exhibition presents all the different media incarnations related to A Child's Machiavelli. The paintings, book, and animations represent a Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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