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Il mondo non è banale? ░ Il linguaggio conveniente del Sublime Prefetto

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¨ Sutta  (vedico: s ū tra; letteralmente: filo * ) del linguaggio conveniente del Sublime Prefetto ** Mia Nonna dello Zen così ha udito: una volta dimorava il Sublime Prefetto presso la Basilica di Sant’Antonio, nel codice catastale di Padua. E il Sublime così parlò: “Quattro caratteristiche, o mio bhikkh ū *** , dirigente dell’area del decreto di espulsione e dell’accoglienza e dirigente anche dell’area degli enti locali e delle cartelle esattoriali e dei fuochi d’artificio fatti come Buddho vuole ogni qualvolta che ad esempio si dica “cazzo di Buddha” o anche “alla madosca” o “gaudiosissimo pelo”, deve avere il linguaggio conveniente, non sconveniente, irreprensibile, incensurabile dagli intercettatori; quali quattro? Ecco, o mio dirigente che ha distrutto le macchie: un dirigente d’area parla proprio un linguaggio conveniente, non sconveniente, un linguaggio conforme alla Dottrina del Governo, non in contrasto con essa, un linguaggio gradevole, non sgradevole, un lin...

Fire Sale on Earth ≡ Danny McDonald

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Danny McDonald at Ordet


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Artist: Danny McDonald
Venue: Ordet, Milan
Exhibition Title: Fire Sale on Earth
Date: September 27 – November 23, 2019
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Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump.
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Images courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Press Release:
Ordet presents Fire Sale on Earth, the first solo show in Italy by American artist Danny McDonald. The exhibition includes selected pieces produced between 2010 and the present day. McDonald’s sculptural narratives are set on pedestals, shelves or hung on walls. Each scenario is the result of a precarious assemblage of figurines, props, souvenirs and found objects.
Danny McDonald has long been interested in major and minor heroes and villains, staples of postwar American consumer culture. These figures are repurposed by the artist in ways that complicate their prescribed roles and spotlight their laughable standing.
In the Trump era, grotesque levels of environmental destruction, scandalous plots, distortions and diversion tactics have tested our resistance to accommodating abuse and to the normalization of violence, obscenity and dehumanization.
Some of the characters depicted in the new pieces include Santa Claus on a polar bear rug, a monstrous octopus attacking the Statue of Liberty, a Borg drone breaking into Fort Knox, the Tin Man of Oz in a decimated forest, a shattered Wall Street Bull tumbling down a section of model railroad track, and the Marlboro Man. These figures look startled and spaced-out. Their poses are unseemly and their behavior unprincipled as they linger at the edge of certain doom.
Danny McDonald was born in Los Angeles and lives and works in New York. Recent shows include Search Parameters, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2018), The Beads & Other Objects, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2017), and Male Moments, House Of Gaga, Mexico City (2014).
Link: Danny McDonald at Ordet