On the Wall
Moniquemeloche Gallery, 02/06/2014 - 05/31/2014
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For his first exhibition with moniquemeloche, Pedro Vélez will activate the "on the wall" project space with #DrunkDictators in an extension of his upcoming project for the Whitney Biennial 2014. An art critic as well as an artist, Vélez creates a visual essay in which art journalism, social media, beauty, race and political corruption collide. #DrunkDictators is a cryptic riddle, mimicking the way the majority of art critics distribute information, ideas and judgment. Combining text sourced from various art reviews with images of models (fellow artists/critics/editors/former lovers), he creates a simultaneously optimistic and fatalistic dynamic amid stream-of-consciousness. "As a working critic and artist it is often difficult for me to separate these two practices" explains Vélez. Inventing a fictitious settings as a way to push his own agenda Velez transforms the "on the wall" space into an artful form of critique- one of morality and ethics...
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For his first exhibition with moniquemeloche, Pedro Vélez will activate the "on the wall" project space with #DrunkDictators in an extension of his upcoming project for the Whitney Biennial 2014. An art critic as well as an artist, Vélez creates a visual essay in which art journalism, social media, beauty, race and political corruption collide. #DrunkDictators is a cryptic riddle, mimicking the way the majority of art critics distribute information, ideas and judgment. Combining text sourced from various art reviews with images of models (fellow artists/critics/editors/former lovers), he creates a simultaneously optimistic and fatalistic dynamic amid stream-of-consciousness. "As a working critic and artist it is often difficult for me to separate these two practices" explains Vélez. Inventing a fictitious settings as a way to push his own agenda Velez transforms the "on the wall" space into an artful form of critique- one of morality and ethics...
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