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"Beautiful Mutants" Mark Mothersbaugh Art Exhibition in Kent
Written by Suff
Wednesday, 13 July 2005
CALLING ALL SPUDS!
remember thats all weekend long.
August 18th, 19th, 20th - Ohio: - DEVO live at Scene Pavilion, Cleveland - August 18th
- Mark Mothersbaugh Beautiful Mutants Opening Reception at North Water Street Gallery- Kent, OH - August 19th.
- plus: DEVOtional 2005 "Time Out For Fun" fan gathering on August 20th at The Lime Spider in Akron, OH.
Put yer power domes on and come on down to the Mark Mothersbaugh "Beautiful Mutants" exhibition at Standing Rock Cultural Arts North Water Street Gallery from August 19 to September 17, 2005. The Opening Reception is August 19.
WHERE: North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Kent, OH
WHO: Standing Rock Cultural Arts is honored to present
WHAT: ³Beautiful Mutants² Mark Mothersbaugh Art Exhibition -Mark Mothersbaugh is a founding member of DEVO -Mark¹s Beautiful Mutants have been touring the world the past two years. -The Beautiful Mutants are antique photographs that Mark manipulates to provide an effect similar to the symmetry found in a Rorschach Test.
WHEN: August 19 to September 17, 2005
-Opening Reception: Friday, August 19, 8pm
-in conjunction with the annual DEVOTIONAL at the Lime Spider in Akron which occurs Saturday, August 20th.
WHERE: North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Kent, OH
CONTACT: 330-673-4970
www.standingrock.net for updates
Thank you for supporting the Arts,
Jeff Ingram/Executive Director
Standing Rock Cultural Arts 257 N. Water St. Kent, OH 44240
330-673-4970
Beautiful Mutants:
http://www.mutatovisual.com/gallery.html#bm
Images pulled from man's past, then corrected into sickeningly beautiful beings.
Photo manipulations & illustrations € Archival Prints, Photos, Originals. Mark's love of art started early in his childhood, just after it was discovered that he was extremely nearsighted and legally blind.
His first correctional glasses offered Mark a new view of the world, inspiring his obsession with imagery and illustrations. His first works, which he began creating in the late 1960's and into the 70's, consisted of many different mediums, including rubber stamp designs, ink illustrations, screen printing, decals, and mail art. He participated in local showings, and received recognition for his work in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.
Now Mark will embark on his BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS tour in 2005, which will showcase his photographic symmetrical creations and 'corrected' imagery. See you there...
Symmetry
Rorschach¹s patterns, though abstract, suggest different visual images to each person who views them, and each interpretation is correct. Objects in this world are what they are to you because of how you happen to see them.
People are all hiding something. Many know exactly what that is, while most probably have no idea. Our asymmetrical exterior hides the true contents in each of us.
Aztec Indians built gigantic kaleidoscopic pyramids that focused light from the sun through complex polished silver mirrors that reflected and flipped images of humans onto walls, giving rise to the celebration of a quest for true symmetry in their lives.
In the 18oo¹s, people would flirt with these ideas and play parlor games with signatures, paper cuttings, etc. It was in the early 1900¹s that Rorschach and other psychiatrists developed theories and medieval practices (inverted as it turned out) based on their intuitive hunches regarding the symmetry and internal workings of man. Humans, great pretenders to bi-lateral symmetry, are in actuality, closer to potatoes in their lack of precise symmetry.
A closer look reveals what is truly inside the people around us.
The photographs in this show were corrected in order to examine those who have walked the planet before us. Theoretically symmetrical in generalities, the subtle potatoe-like qualities of the human form allow the tenants of those bodies to hide within their asymmetric muddiness.
These corrected photographic images allow the true tenant of these human faces and figures to be flushed out and viewed without the disguise that we all so expertly hide behind.
