Added: Aug 20, 2008
From: marziagallinaro
Duration: 3:12
I disegni di Marzia Gallinaro nella Pocket Gallery. A cura di: Matthew Broussard, Pocket Gallery. "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you glad to see me?" With a one-liner Sophie Tucker turns the most intimate of situations into a worldwide cultural icon. Contemporary art often plays with the tension between private and public, exhibiting as "product" the most intimate emotions: a (sometimes) refined variation on the most common marketing ploy of all. Marzia Gallinaro acknowledges this specific aspect of the Pocket Gallery and makes it her own: an art gallery is a public viewing space; but when it's hidden...?...down there, in your pocket...? It becomes a symmetrical mirror of the tendency of contemporary are to trumpet private sentiment in public. She pokes fun at those who become voyeurs under cover of culture, and who slip into small private places (art galleries?) like pre-teens to peek at dirty pictures. Her nervous line drawing which smacks of graffiti (another public venue for private eroticism) creates a tension well suited to the paranoia (of lots of guys) at having to use a magnifying glass or a ruler... the gallery isn't the only place where size matters. Matthew Broussard
Channel: Entertainment
Tags: art contemporary drawings gallery gallinaro marzia pocket
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