Alex Morrison
“We Dance On Your Grave”
Curated by David Catherall & Michele Di Menna
Opening: Thursday March 15, 2007- 7 pm.
Exhibition: March 16-25, 2007
David Catherall and Michele Di Menna would like to introduce new works by Canadian artist Alex Morrison. For ritter&staiff Morrison will present three new works, a photograph, video and a drawing. The photo work Young Radicals appropriates a Vancouver Sun newspaper article regarding a protested stolen 2010 Olympic flag from Vancouver city hall. For Untitled Morrison has also created a ‘stolen’ copy of a Vancouver city plaque from a popular bike messenger hangout using the Max Ernst development of frottage rubbings. In addition, the video We Dance On Your Grave is a recording of a re-enacted fake hippie festival acted out by ex-students of the University of British Columbia in 2006. This new volume of work asks what forms political intentions take, especially in the contention between the exponents of ‘direct-action’ and those of the non-violent persuasion. Morrison poses the question, “are these works capable of carrying a viable critique? Or in simpler terms: which is more effective, direct action or cultural production”?
Alex Morrison is an internationally renowned artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. Recent exhibitions include: Künsthalle Bethanien, Berlin, Schirn Künsthalle Frankfurt, Royal Academy, London, White Columns, New York, and European Künsthalle Köln. He is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery Vancovuer.
David Catherall is an artist living and working in Frankfurt Main, Germany.
His work has been presented locally and internationally including recent exhibitions in Germany, Canada, London, USA, and Spain.
Michele Di Menna is an artist living and working in Frankfurt Main, Germany. Her work has been presented locally and internationally including recent exhibitions in Germany, Canada, New York, San Francisco, London, and Istanbul.
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