ANIMAL FARM
Beastly Muses and Metaphors
Group show / A selling exhibition / June 9 - July 22, 2016
Animal Farm: Beastly Muses and Metaphors is an exhibition that explores the multifaceted relationship between man and animal. From the beginning of recorded human history animals have been imbedded in man’s psyche, represented in literature, music, religion and astrology. Through artistic expression in particular, animals often serve as metaphors for our own intrinsic human characteristics. With such a primordial connection, it is unsurprising that some of the greatest artists of modern times have used animals as their muses, often, returning time and time again to the same creatures, in an almost compulsive study. As is the case with many of the artists in Animal Farm: Beastly Muses and Metaphors, the animals of their attention ultimately act as metaphors for their deeper artistic explorations: mortality, memory, identity, religion and the human body.
Artists:
Mark Dion | Martin Eder | Max Ernst | Gregory Forstner | Lucian Freud | Adrien Ghenie | Sayre Gomez | Rafael Gomezbarros | Georges-Lucien Guyot | David Hockney | Rachel Howard | Zhang Huan | Allison Katz | Oleg Kulik | Friedrich Kunath | François-Xavier Lalanne | Sherrie Levine | Joan Miró | Polly MoArgan | MarkusOehlen | Pablo Picasso | Sigmar Polke | François Pompon | Robert Rauschenberg | Germaine Richier | Moussa Sarr | Kenny Scharf | Raqib Shaw |Gavin Turk | William Wegman |Dean Adams | Marie-Laure André Novak | David Breuer-Weil | Lynn Chadwick | Oliver Clegg | Jean-MarieFiori
