DETROIT AFFINITIES: GREG FADELL
Detroit based artist Greg Fadell will inaugurate the second set of the Detroit Affinities series of solo exhibitions, part of MOCAD’s DETROIT CITY program. This exhibition marks the first solo museum exhibition for the artist.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
DETROIT AFFINITIES:
GREG FADELL
MAY 15 – AUGUST 2, 2015
Detroit based artist Greg Fadell will inaugurate the second set of the Detroit Affinities series of solo exhibitions, part of MOCAD’s DETROIT CITY program. This exhibition marks the first solo museum exhibition for the artist.
The exhibition will focus on the artist’s fascination with art history and its use and role in shaping aesthetic opinions. Fadell’s paintings, sculptures, and video conceptually question how to engage with and measure aesthetic and cultural value and explore what it means to be an artist in the 21st century. Art history is used as an inspiration and a starting point of discovery, and traditional painting techniques are replaced by inkjet prints and chemical solvents.
Using appropriation and deconstruction, Fadell seeks to uncover the perceptual bias of aesthetic precedents, object value, provenance, and institutional prestige. Through this critical examination of how art history is mediated and represented via art publications, ordinary museum posters, or a seemingly mundane television show, Fadell adapts factual information and subverts it to create a historical context of his own invention.
