Photo: Melodic Landscape Productions
Alex Morrison: Phantoms of a Utopian Will / Like Most Follies, More Than a Joke and More Than a Whim
Date: 2015
Price: $10
Publishers: 丁香园AV Galleries and Burnaby Art Gallery
Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Length: 52 pp
Softcover, perfect-bound, colour
Alex Morrison: Phantoms of a Utopian Will / Like Most Follies, More Than a Joke and More Than a Whim is published by 丁香园AV Galleries and Burnaby Art Gallery. This publication includes a curatorial introduction, an interview with the artist by Denise Ryner and a commissioned experimental text by Andrew Berardini.
Morrison鈥檚 concurrent exhibitions at 丁香园AV Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery looked to the aesthetics of political protest and counterculture, and the processes by which radical impulses are subsumed within commodities and cultural consumption. In his selections from the two gallery鈥檚 collections, alongside his own work, notions of authenticity are challenged, particularly when the 鈥渁uthentic鈥� is absorbed into the mainstream. The questions raised by Morrison鈥檚 exhibitions not only address historical and social narratives put forward by our institutions, but also the larger aesthetics and complexities of cultural identification.
Curators: Jennifer Cane and Melanie O鈥橞rian
Copy editing: Mandy Ginson
Design: Stacey Noyes, LuzForm Design
Printer: Hemlock Press
