Robert Morgan: All That Glitters...
de Phillip March Jones, Linda Blackford, Van Meter Pettit, Robert Morgan, Guy Mendes, Louis Zoellar Bickett II
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Robert Morgan began his art career as a scavenger collecting photos, personal mementos and everyday objects from the homes of young gay men who were the victims of AIDS, alcoholism and drug abuse. These objects, regardless of their original significance, were routinely abandoned or thrown away by families that had little use for the remainders of their sons' lives. Blessed with a strong sense of curiosity and a perverse Midas touch, Morgan was able to turn those banal objects into works of art through a complex method of assemblage and adornment. Objects are wrapped, glued and nailed together - infused with religious and personal iconography - and then covered in a thick layer of polyurethane making them glisten and shine like glass. But all that glitters...
Is not gold. It is garbage, junk, trash, detritus, personal, anonymous and all but completely forgotten. It is bottle caps, construction netting, baby dolls and caution tape. But it glitters all the same. The show's title, All That Glitters... is an abbreviated misquote from Shakespeare's original line, "All that glisters is not gold." Morgan's work is the result of a lifelong accumulation of tangible "quotes" - objects taken from the piles of what is left after their original lives have ended. These objects of all shapes and sizes make their way to Morgan's studio and are reassigned meaning by the artist, assembled into the massive altar in the living room, piled in the bedroom or tacked onto a work in progress. Misquoting, re-purposing, re-inventing are the tools that drive Morgan's creative process.
The most recent incarnation of Morgan's accumulative process manifests itself in the form of small army. Saints, warriors and sentries - on foot and on horse - march through the gallery and into the street towards the eager eyes and faces pressed up against the gallery's front window. Created in conjunction with Lexington's EcoGrant program, this exhibition and catalog address the concept of recycling both physically and conceptually. Morgan's work literally recycles and repurposes trash, but more importantly, it recycles memories, experiences and stories that would have otherwise been thrown away.
- Phillip March Jones, Creative Director
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- Categoría principal: Libros de arte y fotografía
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Características: Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
N.º de páginas: 40 - Fecha de publicación: ago. 12, 2010
- Palabras clave guy mendes, institute 193, robert morgan, bob morgan, gallerie soleil, phillip march jones, linda blackford, bickett
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Institute 193 is a non-profit contemporary art space dedicated to enriching the cultural landscape of the Lexington-area by exhibiting emerging and mid-career professional artists from the Southern region of the United States. It serves as a point-of-departure for artists, providing them with professionally installed exhibitions, color catalogs of their work and scholarly essays pertaining to their show. Its goal is to advance the careers of regional artists in the more relevant markets found in New York, Paris, Los Angeles and London. Artists are selected in function of the quality and relevance of their work and not by their commercial viability. The Institute primarily focuses its efforts on the production of scholarly materials, show cards, exhibition catalogs, and anything tangible that may benefit the artist. It also hosts film-screenings, poetry readings and other community-driven events.