Exhibition
Shipshape and Breaking the Spine
June 04–July 30
Rare Device, 1845 Market Street, San Francisco, California
$0–0
Refiguring the work of 17th-century Dutch maritime painter Willem Van de Velde the Elder, 'shipshape' confronts the role of the artist as war reporter at specific moments of history. Exploring the contrasts in epic scale and intimate detail in Van de Velde's work and in the spare but provocative story of his own life, "shipshape" places the viewer directly inside the final battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War and examines Van de Velde's decision to leave the Netherlands for England, a dramatic change of homeland and loyalty in the midst of the wars he rose to fame documenting. The participants in 'Breaking the Spine' are artists, designers, photographers and even a librarian. They are concerned with the physicality of the written word in the digital era and the spatial volume that a literary volume occupies. Their reverence allows them to destroy what they love, to turn a book into building blocks, or the structured alphabet into pure form. They perform alchemy and magic - in their hands, images become stories, pages become letters, and books can fly. Artists include Julie Cloutier, Lisa Congdon, Heather Eddy, Susie Grant, Claire Nereim, Lisa Occhipinti, Paul Octavious, and Coral Silverman.
More info: raredevice.net
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