... constantly working out the details...

... constantly working out the details...

Monday, February 27, 2006

Whippersnappers

The Conner Contemporary ( http://www.connercontemporary.com/ ) is Hosting Whippersnappers, who in their own words are "young, Bright, culturally astute artists who, in our opinion, rock."
These "rockstars" (Fatima Hoang, Michael Magnan, Maki Maruyama, Annie Schap, Zach Storm, Matthew Sutton) provide a curious assortment of unconventional contemporary pieces, from collage to conceptual. Highlights for me included, Fatima Hoangs video pieces of Air guitar edited to fit songs by artists Guns and roses, Creed, and Jay-Z, and to a lesser extent, 'ASPHYNCTERSAYSMEOW' , Video by Annie Schap. I am not sure what the Cultural theme this exhibit was, but none of the pieces had a solid common bond, (with the exception of Corcoran school of art and design Degrees) other than irony. Remember when people said that 9/11 was going to be the death of irony? It wasn't, but that is irrelevant. Zach Storm and his imaginary book covers, really scream out,"Irony is in fact not dead! If These Books were real, and not made up, It would be alive and thriving in print! Long Live Wes Anderson! Long live Magic Markers! Also the Inventory of CVS recalled from memory, by Matthew Sutton is impressive in its very existence.

In summary, the show is genuinely funny at times, and tragically sad at the same time, lukewarm overall, but still a good way to spend an hour if you are in the District.

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