| Devon Costello 2007November 30, 2007- January 12, 2008Reception: November 30, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmThe gathered harvest is refashioned into objects and installations that are
utilitarian and functional. A fetishistic fantasy museum/salon, a museum of
oddities and taxidermy, of dead things and dead history is curated and installed.
The serial killer Ed Gein fashioned human skins into lampshades, clothing, and
upholstery for chairs, this practice has a similar structure to that of the
relationship of consumption and production that occurs in this body of work. The
work becomes a ritualistic killing and display of art, painting, and sculpture. This
mode of production digs up history, and investigates its relationship to keepsake,
re-purposed materials and furniture as a functional collection that exists in a
private sphere of interior space, referencing interior decorating.
-Devon Costello
This is Devon Costello's second solo exhibition at Taxter & Spengemann. A New Yorkbased
artist, he is currently participating in a residency at Städelschule in Frankfurt,
Germany. His previous exhibition at Taxter & Spengemann was in June 2006. Recent
group exhibitions include, The Incomplete, curated by Manon Slome and Hubert
Neumann, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY; Beneath the Underdog, curated by Nate
Lowman and Adam McEwen, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY; and Supernature Times
Nature, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; and The Poster Project, which he curated with Ilya
Lipkin, Kantor/Feuer 10th Avenue window, Participant Inc. and Printed Matter, New
York, NY.
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