Looking forward to seeing this show in joburg. MacGarry is also one of the lads behind Avant Car Guard…
From my inbox:
Michael MacGarry, The Fetish, 2008, Inkjet print on cotton paper, 56 x 86cm, edition of 10
When enough people start saying the same thing.
A solo exhibition by Michael MacGarry
Opens 18:00 Wednesday 16 July 2008 at Art Extra
Exhibition runs 16 July – 16 August 2008
For exhibition MacGarry will be showing a comprehensive body of new work that continues his concern with the ongoing ramifications of imperialism on the African continent, whilst evidencing a move away from the All Theory. No Practice. dogma that has defined his work for the past several years. Working in various media, from sculpture to large-scale photography and editioned bronzes, MacGarry uses temporal compression, fictional narratives, satire and the grotesque to explore current neo-colonial practices, notions of veracity, representational paradigms and the mechanics of political power at a domestic level as well as across the continent.
This exhibition runs concurrently with MacGarry’s commissioned entry for the MTN New Contemporaries 2008 at the University of Johannesburg Arts Centre, opening 10 July 2008.
