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JASON RHOADES @ Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
FEB 18 – MAY 21, 2017
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Jason Rhoades: Installations, 1994 – 2006
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
18 February – 21 May, 2017
A decade after his death and in a moment of heightened political tension, Jason Rhoades’ radical oeuvre is more relevant than ever. From religion, commerce, sex, and racial and gender stereotypes, to role of the artist himself, no subject was off-limits and taboo was embraced. Rhoades viewed art as a machine set on a continuous feedback loop, delivering something superficially chaotic but replete with hidden references beyond first blush, and his existential quest becomes clearer as one moves around and through his installations. Rhoades considered his separate works as components of one single boundless piece realized over time. ‘If you know my work, you know that it is never finished,’ he once said.
Rhoades completed his art studies at UCLA in 1993, where professors Chris Burden, Nancy Rubins, Charles Ray, Paul McCarthy, and Richard Jackson influenced his highly personal experimentation with performance and sculpture. Rhoades’ culminating accretions of readymades, neon signs, and libidinous imagery mimic the seductive vacuum of capitalist culture. These installations of total experience attract, then repulse, then mystify the viewer, igniting questions that multiply with prolonged exposure to the artist’s work.
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JUN 3 – OCT 22, 2017
MAGALI REUS @ Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
FEB 7 – OCT 15, 2017
LOUISE HERVÉ & CHLOÉ MAILLET
@ Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
APR 09 – SEP 25, 2017
IAN CHENG @ MoMA PS1, New York
JUN 22 – SEP 24, 2017
NICK MAUSS @ Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto
JUN 10 – OCT 1, 2017
TOM BURR @ Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
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