Pop my cherry at Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva (press release) (2009)
artdesigncafé | café library | Published 5 October 2009
Pop my cherry
Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva17 September - 7 November 2009
For the grand opening of Patricia Low Contemporary Geneva, the aptly titled Pop My Cherry debuts the gallery’s expansion space with brazen attitude, decadence, and sex appeal, setting the standard for its exhibition programme of the most sought after artists on the contemporary international and secondary market scenes.
Curated by Fabienne Levy and Patricia Low, Pop My Cherry features celebrated works by John Armleder, Nicola Bolla, Sylvie Fleury, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Robert Indiana, David LaChapelle, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Claes Oldenburg, Anselm Reyle, Pipilotti Rist, Borek Sipek and Gavin Turk, proffering the shameless allure of pop’s mesmerising spectacle. Seduction and innuendo abound, its extravaganza is nothing short of scandalous.
Seeding a legacy of frivolity and degeneracy’s symbiosis, Claes Oldenburg’s iconic chubby sausage and ice lolly— one of his earliest soft sculptures originating from his 1961 Store project— limpidly inflate with wholesome perversion, his potent influence expanding through the space age hallucinogenic temptation of Sylvie Fleury’s metallic phallic mushrooms, and Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski crystal gilded swing, its Rococco caprice literally blinding with fetishists’ magic. Shades of Andy Warhol’s audacious diva-ism echo throughout Vik Muniz, David LaChapelle, and Gavin Turk with their individually styled portraits coalescing celebrity, fashion, and horror, Nan Goldin’s red-light glow photos of lady-boy pop star look-a-likes, and Pipilotti Rist’s psychodellic-sexy film stills from her 1995 Hallo, guten Tag.
Consumerism’s ubiquitous fascination resounds in this collection of some of the most identifiable art-brands of our time: Robert Indiana’s Love, Takashi Murakami’s Flowers of Joy, and Damien Hirst’s spots and butterflies compel contemplation, sublimation, and worship with their infinitely luxurious and deadening splendour. John Armleder’s Powder II mirror panel, Anselm Reyle’s new Dripping assemblages, and Borek Sipek’s exquisitely crafted glass works converge art and design at the apex of connoisseurship’s opulence, their spell-binding beauty delivered with consummate and clinical perfection.
Critically hard-hitting and edgy, Pop My Cherry examines the phenomena of pop through its symbolic inversion: a movement inherently democratic in inception subliminally transformed to the ultimate expression of affluent exorbitance. Mapping the ethereal borders where individual artistic practice interlopes into terrains of the culturally divine, forming a superlative mirror of modern post and hyper society, Pop My Cherry resolves as pure earthly indulgence (with all the fun, abandonment, hedonism, gratification entailed) to offer irresistible temptation that’s positively sinful.
Patricia Low Contemporary Geneva is located at 10 rue de l’Arquebuse, 1204 Geneva. The gallery is open Tuesday- Saturday, from 10:00 to 7:00 and by appointment. For more information please email [...]
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