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Dear All,
This is it !!!
I am thrilled to invite you to the Grand Opening for NOT A ROSE.
It would mean a lot to me if you could come and celebrate with me
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Spisulae solidissimae insectae
(skin of atlantic surf clams)
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THURSDAY
MAY 23
6 - 8pm
HEIDE HATRY
NOT A ROSE
Photographs
at
STUX GALLERY
530 West 25th Street
New York
May 23 - June 22, 2013
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Vagina pilosa capreae
(hairy deer vagina)
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STUX GALLERY is delighted to announce Not a Rose, a solo exhibition of photographs by neo-conceptual artist Heide Hatry. Seamlessly juxtaposing flowers assembled from grotesque, immaculately manicured flesh debris and picturesque, nonchalant nature, Hatry's works bring aesthetics and ethics into an explosive head-on collision that is both conceptually corrosive and visually arresting.
Hatry's serene scenes of flowers are actually photographs of trompe l'oeil arrangements of the offal, sex organs and other residues of deceased animals. Their simple compositions almost recall scientific illustrations, whose directed focus on the flowers' anatomy heightens their fragrant aroma and delicate beauty. Her commitment to recreating the physical beauty of flowers renders the viewer's realization of the photographs' true materiality particularly jarring. The instantaneity of photography confronts the ephemeral blossoms with the persistent momentum of death and decay, and invites viewers to interrogate our cultural conception of flowers and their function as, essentially, "sex organs for plants". Elegant yet deeply disturbing, these works call into question the foundations of aesthetic perception (and perception in general) and the ethics of our use and abuse of living animal-plant nature.
This exhibition at Stux coincides with the new CHARTA publication: Heide Hatry, Not a Rose, which addresses the nature of our relationship to flowers with unprecedented scope. Her images and the writing of 101 prominent intellectuals, writers, and artists together channel Richard Wagner's pursuit of the "Gesamtkunstwerk", an interdisciplinary "total artwork" that offers a dynamic, holistic expression of its subject that is not constrained by the division between contemporary artistic genres. Contributing writers include Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jessica Hagedorn, Donna Haraway, Siri Hustvedt, Lucy Lippard, Robert Kelly, Kate Millett, Rick Moody, Steven Pinker, Avital Ronell, Stanley Rosen, Peter Singer, Klaus Theweleit, Franz Wright, and Luisa Valenzuela.
- Lucy Li
It would be soooo wonderful to seeing you there
Very warmly
Heide
PS: For more info, please click on the underlined texts
EVENTS:
Press conference and gallery
RECENT PRESS:
- ARTEALLIMITE Magazine cover and feature:
- STRAND event documentation:
- MoMA PS1 reviews:
http://artvironmentalist.wordpress
http://www.luxe-immo.com/reportage
- MUSÉE Magazine feature:
- Art NEWS feature:
http://www.artnews.com
- Revistadearte Magazine feature:
- Plataformadeartecontemporaneo Magazine feature:
http://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com
EXHIBITIONS:
- One of a Kind at the AC-Institute (547 W 27th St in NYC, btw 10th and 11th Ave). If you didn't check out the unique artist's book exhibition, please hurry up, that show will close tomorrow, Saturday, May 18th.
- Mayday: Pirate Utopia. 2nd Annual Anarchist Art Fair at Peanut Underground (215 E. 5th St New York, NYC). May 7 - June 9, 2013.
- Fifth International Artists's Books Exhibition at King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Megyeház u.17. Hungary, with an Opening reception on May 18, 4pm, through October 27, as well as at the City Gallery - Deak Collection, Székesfehérvár, Oskola u.10., Hungary. Opening reception on May 18, 5pm
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