Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler,SEVEN (Cecil), 2012, mixed media with three channel video,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Labour and Wait
July 2- September 22, 2013
This exhibition features the work of artists who bring 21st-century urgency to 19th-century principles of virtue through work and craftsmanship. Inspired in part by developments that stem back as far as the Industrial Revolution, the presentation examines contemporary culture’s obsession with authenticity, the hand-crafted, and the politics of manufacturing and labor. Works in the exhibition date from the late 1980s to the present, a period in which artists turned from industrial fabrication and a seamless aesthetic to hand-made or “do-it-yourself” sensibilities.
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