- Venue
- GARDENfresh
- Starts
- Friday, May 30, 2008
- Ends
- Saturday, June 28, 2008
- Address
- 119 N. Peoria #3D Chicago, IL, 60607
- Location
"… the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals… True war is a celebration of markets." –Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow Just over five years on since President Bush announced “Mission Accomplished” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, artists Burtonwood and Holmes present a new exhibition I Support the War / The War Supports Me (ISTW/TWSM). With this exhibition the artists mark a return to heroic scale painting combined with an all-encompassing installation to assault the viewer with an all over experience of consumption and excess. “…Logistics is the procedure following which a nation’s potential is transferred to its armed forces, in times of peace as in times of war…” –Paul Virilio, Pure WarThe first section presents a new installation (Zeitgeist) MMIII – MMVIII that draws upon contributions from over twenty visual artists from the Chicago area. B+H have painted scenes from the Iraq war on directly on the walls of the gallery and invited artists to hang their own art works on top of these painted areas. The images of warfare and violence provide a lens through which we can re-interpret the art works displayed as products of a warrior nation.
