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Email PageThe Assassination of Saddam Hussein and Oher Stuff
February 7, 2008- March 8, 2008
Reception: February 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sebastian Errazuriz
Marvelli Gallery
526 W 26th StMarvelli Gallery is pleased to present The Assassination of Saddam Hussein and Other Stuff, the first solo exhibition in New York of Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz. The show will feature a series of large-scale paintings as well as a video projection entitled Portrait of You.
The paintings replicate the covers of local newspapers, blown up and with no further manipulation. The artist adds a resin finish creating a glossy, plastic appearance. The video in the exhibition juxtaposes two of last year’s most watched YouTube videos.
“Creating moments of conscience appears very difficult today. Fiction is at times so realistic that we are finding it hard to believe. On the other hand, reality is so often delivered as a commoditized product through the media that we forget to look beyond what we are presented.
In search for a body of work that can break through these anesthetic barriers, tap into a hardened audience and create conscience of these same structures, I try to avoid creating any authorial representation that can add to the pre-existing “environmental noise”. Rather, I believe the tools of de-contextualization, alteration, and appropriation can be utilized today in a sharper and more drastic way.
This translates into creating minimum artistic authorial interventions that never the less contain the strength to break through the veil of expectations and allow the audience to revisit social realities and the endless symbolism present in everyday life.”
Originally from Santiago de Chile, 30-year-old Sebastian Errazuriz lives and works in New York where he is completing a MFA at New York University.
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