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Thursday, February 11th to Saturday, March 13th
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Gesamtkunstwerk is Mexico City’s contemporary Artist Artemio Narro’s (b. 1976) new show at Queens Nails Projects. The young artist who came of age in the 90’s offered Mexico’s art scene an alternative artistic expression through video and performance in reaction to the Mexico’s painting movement in the 80’s.
His new exhibition Gesamtkunstwerk is a collection of works in reference to the violence lived in the drug trade and the a-political anarchist struggle in Mexico. Arranging images of weapons such as guns, grenades, bombs, machetes into impeccable mandalas Narro charges these universal symbols of piece and beauty with a strong message. It is certainly no coincidence that Narro chooses to arrange these images into such a symbol, their dazzling effect on the viewer, drawing one in to their complicated pattern reflects violence’s hypnotizing effect on the public who refuses to react. The impeccable arrangement insinuates that the pseudo-anarchist struggle in Mexico is certainly not without an imposed order. As Galeria de la Raza explains Narro’s the weapon mandalas are “a paradox of fascination and repulsion“. Hollywoodpedia and Gesamtkunstwerk by Galeria de la Raza. Narro’s work is seems meant to be seen by everyone, yet understood by few as it involves diverse references although paradoxically the title of the exhibition is Gesamtkunstwerk, a German term which translated to Universal Artwork.
The artist reception is Thursday, February 11th 7—11pm.
Along with Gesamtkunstwerk Narro is having a second exhibition Hollywoodpedia in the Galeria de la Raza where Narro explores Hollywood as an encyclopedia of the human condition. Click here to got to Artemio Art Exhibit: Hollywoodpedia.
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WHERE: Queens Nails Projects 3191 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94110 queensnailsprojects.com/contents/?page_id=3 HOOD: |
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