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7th Side of the Die Opening

Date: Wednesday, March 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Alona Kagan Gallery (540 West 29th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: A group show that examines identity in the wake of an over-hyped media-driven society


"With the recent scandals in the literary world of writers faking their memoirs and even identities—to the point where we are not sure they ever existed— the concept of spinning stories has gone to a new level. From reality TV shows, talk shows and over-hyped media, the public is left in a daze of what is true or not. The artists in this exhibition, from emerging to established, are tweaking and toying with identities, constructing their own realities and deconstructing lazily received notions of reality that we mistake as 'truth. The show emulates the Surrealist tradition of inventiveness and absurdity as well as its example of establishing creative relationships between writers and artists.

As a supplement to the exhibition, a complimentary editioned newspaper, The Seventh Side of the Die, will be published. This will serve as a medium where artists and writers will collaborate and carry on a dialogue through text and images. One hundred Newspapers will have an insert of an original drawing by an artist, which will be available for sale."

Posted by Chris at March 8, 2006 06:00 PM

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