Wallspace
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturn Return – curated by Elizabeth Lovero
Kate Costello, Jen DeNike, Damien Echols, Gloria Maximo, Dan Miller,
Koka Ramishvili and Daniel Turner
Exhibition Dates: June 4 - July 23, 2010
Opening Reception: June 4, 6-8pm
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I came into the world under the sign of Saturn—the star of the slowest
revolution, the planet of detours and delays… -Walter Benjamin
The mark of a saturnine temperament is the self-conscious and
unforgiving relation to the self, which can never be taken for
granted. -Susan Sontag
Saturn Return features artists who employ self-reflexive, often
hermetic, modes of creation and whose resultant works are marked by
an internally-focused, saturnine character. In astrological circles,
when the planet Saturn "returns" to the degree relative to the Sun it
occupied at the time of one's birth—approximately every 29.5 years—the
individual enters a period of intense personal contemplation; re-
evaluating their past trajectory and present state of being with the
soft-daydreamer's gaze of the myopic.
The image of the artist working in isolation, retreat or withdrawal is
hardly new. However, as collectivity and participation are, as of
late, often used synonymously with social engagement and public
value, the artists featured in Saturn Return side-step the formalism
of discursivity and sociability to pursue a visual language of
personal reflections and private acts.
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