Every Which Way But Loose was presented at artMRKT Hamptons this weekend, with work by artists Trong Gia Nguyen, Nyugen Smith and Coby Kennedy. You can contact the gallery to inquire about available works. Check out photos of the event below!
Coby Kennedy's Supply And Demand vending machines are a satirical play on modern consumerism. One (red) peddles popular cliches such as Newports, boxcutters and Phillies blunts illustrating how even a bad-boy lifestyle can be marketed and sold. The other machine (green) takes on our country's red-button issue with gun control. Both machines are intended to be blatant and sensational, abrasively highlighting the often exploitative relationship between producer and consumer.
Trong Gia Nguyen's Guy Debord (guillotine) is a wooden shed/outhouse whose door has a hole cut out where the visitor may insert his head. Peeking inside reveals projected video clips of Andy Warhol's "screen tests." The countenances of Warhol's pals are spliced and re-embodied with disparate "bathroom tests" depicting individuals, from the shoulders down, sitting on the commode. Looking straight down, a tilted mirror inside a large basket reflects a more dire and morbid predicament. The basket, it seems, is there to catch the viewer's head as he finds himself placed under the blade of a guillotine.
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