Curated by
Sarah McCrory
Charles Atlas
Spartacus Chetwynd
Kitty Kraus
Manuela Leinhoß
Sol LeWitt
John McCracken
Dawn Mellor
John Miller
Carter Mull
Sterling Ruby
Jill Spector
Jannis Varelas
The idea of the grotesque only exists if it inhabits and breaks
free from a body that contains it, either literally or metaphorically.
This exhibition explores elements of that disruption through
works that embody different aspects of the grotesque such as
the Rabelaisian celebration of excess of the body. Soviet
literary theorist Mikhail Bahktin’s critique of 16th Century
writer Francois Rabelais discusses the grotesque and the carnivalesque,
and focuses on the coarseness and extravagance of human nature,
and the corruption of the classical body; a representation of
order and the establishment.
The title is taken from a 1920 painting by Otto Dix, in which
the German card game Skat is played by grotesque ‘war-cripples’.
In this case the title has been appropriated to refer to the
rules of the game Skat and the scatological connection of the
term.
The exhibition features the work of Charles Atlas, Spartacus
Chetwynd, Kitty Kraus, Manuela Leinhoß, Sol LeWitt, John
McCracken, Dawn Mellor, John Miller, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby,
Jill Spector and Jannis Varelas.
For further information or images please contact Sarah McCrory:
+44(0) 20 8981 3344 or: sarah@vilmagold.com |
SPARTACUS
CHETWYND
Performance, Sunday 16th at 3pm
Jabba's Romper
Room
sitting around on cushions reading and sipping mint tea... there's
a
phone line made of plastic cups and string... to Brother Cadfael
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two people inside out and a special spinning dance.
Jabba the Hutt reading "Rabelais and His World" by
Mikhail Bakhtin
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