| Superficial EngagementJanuary 14, 2006- February 11, 2006
“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.
Reviews of Superficial EngagementVillage 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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