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Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude

CONTEMPORARY ART

16 NOVEMBER 2017 - 25 FEBRUARY 2018

Η ΕΚΘΕΣΗ

Superman had a problem. He couldn’t go home. Although he was endowed with paranormal abilities, he was nonetheless defenseless against the illness of homesickness. Finding himself exiled on Earth, he was an extraterrestrial who couldn’t phone home because his planet Krypton had been blown to bits by an apocalyptic cataclysm. In fact, fragments of his old home, known as Kryptonite, would reduce him to a level of childlike helplessness. In Superman’s world, home was a killer. Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness the exhibition brought together a range of key works from across the artist’s career in order to reflect on the uncanny condition of psychological homelessness in the contemporary world.

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Ah…Youth!, 1990
Ringier Collection, Switzerland © Mike Kelley Foundation of Arts/ All Rights Reserved, Licended by VAGA, New York
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Photo Natalia Tsoukala
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Ah…Youth!, 1990
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Raised in suburban Detroit, Kelley gravitated to the counter-cultural beat of punk rock and the underground art scene. He became an important part of a new generation of American artist in the late 1970s that approached the stultifying effects of normative American popular culture with a skeptical eye and happily combined sculpture, painting, drawing, video and performance without respect to any kind of artistic hierarchy.

Everything was possible and anything could be used in order to investigate the repressed dark underbelly of the seemingly calm veneer of so-called normal American middleclass life. Whether using found stuffed animals as emotional effigies of long lost traumatic memories of childhood or evoking the psychic existential homelessness of Superman in the form of Kelley’s exploration of the superhero’s shrunken and inaccessible home city of Kandor that he kept in his Fortress of Solitude, Kelley sought to continually remind us that no matter how hard we try, we can’t go home.

επιμέλεια: Douglas Fogle

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