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Superficial Engagement

January 14, 2006- February 11, 2006

Thomas Hirschhorn

Gladstone Gallery

515 W 24th St

“Superficial Engagement” will contain a series of platforms exploring the intersection of the destruction of war and the creation of art. As Hirschhorn puts it in his own formulation of the show, “To go deeply into something, I first must begin with the surface. The truth of things, its own logic, is reflected on the surface.” The current climate of constant war and oppression worldwide particularly provokes Hirschhorn’s critical inquiry, as he considers his art and his political activism to be inseparable. Combining found imagery and texts, bound up in low-tech constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, he props imagistic assaults in a DIY-fashion that correlates to the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload designed to simulate the artist's own process of grappling with the excess of information in his daily life.

Art Reviews of Superficial Engagement

Village Voice January 27, 2006

Jerry Saltz

"Thomas Hirschhorn's latest exhibition is a walk-in manifesto, a book of the dead about the psychic place where mysticism, modernism, mayhem and terror collapse into one another. Many will find this show revolting. Not because it's bad or resembles a parade float from perdition, or weakens on repeated visits, but because of Hirschhorn's use of violent imagery and his supposed estheticizing of it...."

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Location   Gallery Gladstone Gallery Address 515 W 24th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-206-9300 Fax 212-206-9301 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6

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