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| A Virtual
Exhibition: "I live in my own little world" Curated by William Stover, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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For the first time, artnet shows a virtual exhibition: "I live in my own little world" curated by William Stover from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He got the idea for artnet's Virtual Exhibition from a chance encounter with someone on the street in Boston.... "I live in my own little world, but it's ok...they know me here" was written in white letters on a black T shirt worn by the guy walking toward me. Funnily enough, at that moment I was lost in my own little world and this T-shirt brought me back to reality. Since that morning, that image - a young, 20ish guy, sporting a Bay City Rollers haircut, jeans slung low on his hips and those letters sprawling across his chest - has stuck with me. Proclaiming proudly that he is comfortable with the reality he has created. He knows who he is and he is contented with how he has constructed his own little world. The human desire to locate ourselves in a particular place leads to creation of our own worlds. The artists in this loosely organized grouping have also created their own realities and have invited us into their worlds. Their works are glimpses into twelve different worlds. Some are imaginings or re-compositions of private or virtual worlds, while others are reflections of the "real" and its relationship to "imagined" experience. As we know, art is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented, and among the most effective ways to alter reality, see it better, or invent a new reality. Art not only explores consciousness, it changes it. Impacted by the specter of both historical and contemporary precursors, the work represented demonstrates the re-posturing of traditional genres as well as a lexicon of new technologies to create their realities. In creating their own worlds, these artists demonstrate that it is better to live through your imagination than your experience and that constructing your own little world does not mean closing yourself to others, but rather having the vision to open your world to all the worlds you encounter. |
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 Lady Boss Philip Kwame Apagya Jack Shainman Gallery |
 Untitled Marcel Dzama David Zwirner |
 Walking Mia Enell LUXE Gallery |
 Soliloquy III Sam Taylor-Wood Matthew Marks Gallery |
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 Untitled #5 Nic Nicosia Charles Cowles Gallery |
 Untitled Su-en Wong Michael Steinberg Fine Art / Polytechnic at Michael Steinberg Fine Art/ MS Editions Inc. |
 Untitled (white, yellow and blue) Ann Veronica Janssens 1301PE |
 Untitled (Patti Smith) Robert Mapplethorpe Galerie Thomas Schulte |
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 Memory Saint Clair Cemin Cheim & Read |
 Karaoké Candice Breitz Art & Public, Geneve |
 Contrite Heart Sherry Wong I-20 Gallery |
 Basement Bunker: Painting Queens in the Red Carpet Hall Paul McCarthy Hauser & Wirth Zürich |
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William Stover is Assistant Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stover has curated numerous exhibitions in New York and Boston. His upcoming project with artist Cerith Wyn Evans will open at the MFA on October 6, 2004. |
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