Variations on a Theme | 8/13/2010 – 8/27/2010
Variations on a Theme | Friday, August 13, 2010 – Friday, August 27, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, August 13, 2010
5:00pm – 9:00pm
222 West Merchandise Mart Plaza
Suite 1573
“For the last week I have been playing a game. I have been trying to predict what I would be doing in five minutes or in two minutes. I have found that no matter how hard I try I am more often wrong than right, and when I am right it is obvious that this outcome has been reached so precariously that the results seem accidental. I have also been struck with the radical difference between my fantasy about the future and the actual experience itself. My prediction is at most a vague picturing of a category of activity whereas the experience itself is made up of mood, thoughts, bodily sensations, detailed perceptions, etc., none of which are exactly like what I have experienced before. I have discovered that when I am aware of all of this I find it impossible to be bored. As I write this I am convinced that boredom is a false concept of the future. My boredom leans on my expectation that the immediate future will be ‘the same old thing.’ I cannot expect imminent change and remain bored.”
- Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself
Subjecting themselves to rigid constraints revolving around ideals and conventions of the artists practice, Paul Cowan, Scott Cowan, Christopher Gatton, Michael Hunter and Vanesa Zendejas highlight the work itself as a gestural stand-in for the consideration of art in general. Join us in this wild room for the opening reception
*put on in part with the Chicago Artist Coalition