Persuasion

Persuasion opens January 15, 2010, 8-10 pm, at the Temporary Space, 1320 Nance, Houston, TX 77002.
After the opening reception the exhibition will be open by appointment until February 5, 2010.
For viewing appointments contact Keijiro Suzuki, cell: 832-867-9207, manager@thetemporaryspace.com

Persuasion is a series of exhibitions curated by Tex Kerschen and Erika Thrasher.
The inaugural exhibitions are Michael Dee: Song of Myself and Domokos Benczedi: Collagen and Prototypes.

Michael Dee is a Los Angeles based artist who works in sculpture, video, painting, and drawing. His videos investigate cacophony and overload with regards to the hasty reassembly of culture. Through excessive volume, claustrophobic framing, imagery that is often intentionally degraded from repeated transfers from bootleg sources, and visual content drawn from the world of rock music, ballistics tests, medical process, and aeronautic engineering, his videos attempt to create an experience as viscerally powerful as that of someone attending his or her first live rock concert.

Here he will be exhibiting two video works: Song of Myself and Here It Comes Again.

Michael Dee, Song of Myself, still from dvd loop 2008.

Michael Dee, Here it Comes Again, still from dvd loop, 2005.

Domokos Benczedi is a Houston-based artist and musician. His collages, in part inspired by the art of Damon Edge of Chrome, futurize dada techniques. Familiar objects are highjacked and transformed into fetishes for unspoken states of astonishment and desire. These new images, derived from everyday sources, suggest human rituals amid alien landscapes.

He will be exhibiting large-scale collages as well as prototypes for new sculptures.

Domokos Benczedi, Blondes Multiplex, collage.


Domokos Benczedi, Untitled, collage.

About Persuasion.

Hybrid Moments:
“When new creatures rape your face
Hybrids open up the door.”>

We will be displaying works by various artists according to a system of self-applied rules and limitations.

First of all, no begging from corporations, individuals, or institutions.
Begging has put art in a sorry place.
For that reason, original works are de-prioritized. Multiples, copies and bootlegs are ok.
cf., Walter Benjamin “Art in the age of Mechanical Bull-riding.”

We take courage in the samizdat tradition of self-published literature during the Soviet and other totalitarian regimes.

About us:
Erika Thrasher is a Houston-based musician, artist, and graphic designer.
Tex Kerschen is a writer, musician, and former chief curator of the Station. Exhibitions he has organized have been reviewed favorably in Art in America, Art Lies, the Christian Science Monitor, the Houston Press, and the Houston Chronicle among countless other publications.

About the Temporary Space
The Temporary Space is a new project space managed by Keijiro Suzuki.
http://www.thetemporaryspace.com

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