Culture Lab Detroit and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit are pleased to present a public work by Gary Simmons, with support from Bedrock. This site-specific immersive installation is open to the publicSeptember 15 through January 1.
For his first public project in Detroit, Simmons has wallpapered the space with original musical fly posters that reference specific styles, as well as their attendant subcultures and sociopolitical connotations. This work indelibly refers to the guerilla technique of wheat-pasting posters to makeshift surfaces, effectively turning an urban landscape into a medium for cultural dissemination. By replicating this imagery within the confines of the gallery, Simmons presents once-slighted or disenfranchised ephemera as vital contributions to culture at large. These singular images form an auditory autobiography for Simmons, as well as a cross-section of American culture over the past half-century.
Gary Simmons’ installation inaugurates Culture Lab Detroit: WALLS, two-day series of discussions, dinners, and public projects centering around different approaches to walls—architectural or ideological boundaries which both define cultural practice and limit understandings of art, architecture, and other cultural undertakings. The conversations will be held September 15 and 16 starting at 6:30 P.M. |
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This exhibition was on view at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco 8 June to July 15 2016.
Photo credit: JKA Photography
Courtesy the artist and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
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