My Failed Drawings


2005


“My Failed Drawings, Obliterated.” Black and white paintings in the form of mushroom clouds over previously executed drawings.

THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION
AHMED ALSOUDANI, BEN GRASSO, WENDY HELDMANN, MOLLY LARKEY

june 28 - july 28, 2007

THIERRY GOLDBERG PROJECTS is proud to present THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION, a group show featuring work by Ahmed Alsoudani, Ben Grasso, Wendy Heldmann, and Molly Larkey. The selected work represents destruction and disaster while moving from moments of suspended explosion to its aftermath. THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION borrows its name from the J.G. Ballard novel of the late sixties.

"This is the way, step inside . . . Take my hand and I'll show you what was and will be."
--Joy Division, "Atrocity Exhibition," Closer, 1980.  

Explosion reaches its most formal point in Molly Larkey's Bomb series. This formalization sites a distance from the actual catastrophe of the atomic bomb. Her sculptures and paintings bring to mind Isa Genzken's play between the object and its pedestal as she nods to the constructions of Franz West. The visual weight of the mushroom clouds sculpted in Hydrocal and paint serves to monumentalize the explosion. The atom bomb is an object of contested negotiation, and Larkey's commodification of it takes on that value.
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