“Shelved Animals” – Deborah Simon, 2000 – foto Smith
Would love to tell you to see this show at the CSU Art Gallery, but it’s gone . . . we stumbled in on its last day.
Here’s it’s web-where: Animatopoeia – A Most Peculiar (Post Modern) Bestiary, and a taste of what we saw. There were 19 artists.
“Ceremony” – Kate Clark, 2011 – foto Smith
The show “is based on an obscure list of categories of animals that comes to us through Michel Foucault, the postmodern thinker, and social theorist, in a groundbreaking book on Postmodernist thought The Order of Things, by way of a quote by Jorge Luis Borges who claims that it came from a translation from an ancient Chinese encyclopedia”:
Those that belong to the emperor
Embalmed ones
Those that are trained
Suckling pigs
Mermaids
Fabulous ones
Stray dogs
Those that are included in this classification
Those that tremble as if they were mad
Innumerable ones
Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
Et cetera
Those that have just broken the flower vase
Those that, at a distance, resemble flies
“From A Ceremony” – Jim Leach, 2012 – foto Smith
“In Bocca Al Lupo” – Beth Cavener Stichter, 2012 – foto Smith
detail of Adrian Hatfield piece – foto Smith
“Medusa” – Roberto Osti, 2012 – foto Smith
“Pig” – Gamble Staempfli – foto Smith