Summer exhibitions featured on Akimbo

“Cooper Cole has an especially eye-popping display of energized work under the exclamatory rubric Zagga Zow. A lot of the work focuses on figures and faces; combine that with the electric colour palette and a psychedelic sense of humour, and you get a show that leans heavily in the direction of underground comics (yet another cross-over!). Participating artist Marc Bell is well known for his trippy panels of dense image and wordplay, while Taylor McKimens has a definite Gary Panter-thing going on. I’m not sure what to make of the mock-tribal art of Charlie Roberts and the racist-caricatures of Devin Troy Strother. Summer fun breaks down for me at this level of political incorrectness, unless I’m missing the underlying critique.”

He also comments on Sara Cwynar’s exhibition Accidental Archives:

“In the back, and not officially Zagga Zow, Sara Cwyner has the kind of maximalist, floor-to-ceiling assemblage that turns my crank. The overall feel is actually one of mourning as this (like Pascal Grandmaison’s similarly elegiac installation at Prefix ICA) is a shrine to the soon-to-be-lost era of darkroom photography. It’s funny/sad how quickly the once-familiar negatives strips and photomat bags have disappeared from our visual culture. It reminds me of how I had to explain what a film cartridge was to a class reading Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Times change, but photography, not simply in content but in form, is memory.”

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For more information about Zagga Zow and Accidental Archives please contact the gallery:

info@coopercolegallery.com
+1 (647) 347-3316

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