DC -- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design -- Exhibit: Open: An Installation by Robin Bell:
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February 7 - March 31, 2018
OPEN, an installation of lights and projections by artist Robin Bell, is a celebration of transparency, belonging and accessibility.
Reflecting on the cancellation of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Corcoran some thirty years ago, Bell intends for OPEN to serve a counterpoint to decisions regarding censorship, erasure and closure.
OPEN is a prelude to 6.13.89, an exhibition that opens in 2019 and examines the climate that led to the Corcoran Gallery of Art cancelling the Mapplethorpe retrospective. According to Bell, the decision to be open is not accidental or neutral. When you ask the public to be open, you are asking them to do more work—to not proceed as normal but to reexamine, to rethink.
OPEN is a goal: open borders, open thought, open dialogue. Through OPEN, Bell will debut site-specific works that takes into account the physical location of the Corcoran across from the White House, the cultural nexus in which the Corcoran exists, and the fundamental rights born in the First Amendment.
Video artist, filmmaker and street projectionist Robin Bell, of Washington, D.C., creates guerrilla projections that can transform government building and hotels into conversation pieces. View his work at bellvisuals.com
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- OPEN_190214_028.JPG: OPEN, an installation of lights and projections by artist Robin Bell, is a celebration of transparency, belonging and accessibility. Reflecting on the cancellation of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Corcoran some thirty years ago, Bell intends for OPEN to serve a counterpoint to decisions regarding censorship, erasure and closure.
OPEN is a prelude to 6.13.89, an exhibition that opens in 2019 and examines the climate that led to the Corcoran Gallery of Art cancelling the Mapplethorpe retrospective. According to Bell, the decision to be open is not accidental or neutral. When you ask the public to be open, you are asking them to do more work -- to not proceed as normal but to reexamine, to rethink.
OPEN is a goal: open borders, open thought, open dialogue.
- OPEN_190214_048.JPG: The Swamp (2019)
- OPEN_190214_177.JPG: Robin Bell
- OPEN_190214_261.JPG: Unpresidented
Trump Hastily Departs White House, Ending Crisis
This was a fake issue of The Washington Post, celebrating the removal of Trump. It's hard to tell it's not a real issue until you notice that its publication date is May 1, 2019 (I photographed this in February, 2019), it's price is Free, and the masthead byline is "Democracy Awakens in Action" instead of the actual "Democracy Dies in Darkness".
I asked Robin Bell why the issue was here in his exhibit and he said he was friends with the person who had put it out and they had some extras so he had them available for people.
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