EXHIBITIONS

Consuming War curated by Barbara Koenen at the Hyde Park Art Center

Friday November 2, 2007


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Price War! (preview image), dimensions variable, Polyurethane and filament line, 2007

Consuming War

November 4 – Janury 20, 2008, Gallery 1
Works by Lynda Barry, Wafaa Bilal, Mary Brogger, Adam Brooks, Burtonwood & Holmes, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Fred Holland, Harold Mendez, Michael Rakowitz, Ellen Rothenberg, Edra Soto, Paula White and Dolores Wilber.
Curated by Barbara Koenen

Focusing on the U.S. conflict in the Middle East over the past 10 years, Consuming War addresses the ways the American media and consumer culture have manipulated and influenced our perceptions of war, often turning it into a spectacle for American consumption. While war is an underlying theme in all the works, each addresses the concept of war, and our relationship to it, from a variety of angles, creating pieces that range from political cartoons to sculptures that recreate the archeological artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq and large suspended papier mâché bombs made from sale advertisements. Timely in its subject matter, Consuming War offers an innovative platform in which the complex and multifarious connections between war, capitalism, American consumer culture, and our everyday live can be re-situated and critically examined.

The Art Center thanks those who gave individual contributions to the exhibition, including Craig Ahmer, Jane Fulton Alt, Sidney Barton, Kim Freiders, Connie Gillock, John Himmelfarb and Molly Day, Esther Grimm, Justine Jentes and Daniel Kuruna Laurel Lipkin, Jackie Kazarian and Peter Cunningham, Paul Klein, Barbara Koenen and Tim Samuelson, Harold Olin, Karen Paluzzi Steele, Laura Samson, Eva Silverman, Paula White, and Roberta Zabel.

Consuming War is supported by
Newcity Chicago
The American Adademic Research Institute in Iraq
Experimental Station

p.s. a big THANK YOU to Connie Gillock and Paul Klein who support made this piece possible.


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