PASCAL ROUSSON at the Vegas gallery, LDN from 21 AUG - 14 SEP

Posted on July 26, 2008 at 1:13 PM.

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Exhibition Title: “THE HOUSE OF PAIN”

Artist Name: PASCAL ROUSSON
Dates: 21 AUGUST-14 SEPTEMBER 2008. Private View: Thursday 21 August 18.00-21.00 and a Closing Party: 13 September 18.00-21.00
Website: http://www.vegasgallery.co.uk

Exhibition Description:

Swiss/French artist Pascal Rousson presents House of Pain, his first solo exhibition at the Vegas gallery, an installation which elaborates upon Museum of the Dispossessed, previously shown at Vegas as part of the Loose Booty group show.

House of Pain merges elements and themes from Rousson’s past repertoire. Including reworked flea market and charity shop paintings which take on satirical references to canonical Western artists, an interest in American pulp fiction and amateur D.I.Y. craft-making manuals, and an obsession with the constricting myth of The Great Artist as Rock Star, predestined to burn out and leave a trail of beautiful, history-altering corpses.

Description:

PASCAL ROUSSON
'The Museum of the Dispossessed'
Installation 2008

Courtesy of the Vegas Gallery

In the centre of the gallery stands an installation resembling a garden shed, constructed from a skin of closely packed paintings that mix references to canonical artists with American pulp novel cover art, teenage bedroom aesthetics and trippy pop-surrealist infused imagery. This arrangement, evocative of a salon-style bedroom poster display, alludes to a past-tense idyll of adolescent rebellion.

Rousson mocks art’s dissident vision of itself by comparing it to a secret teenage bedroom garden of jumbled, fomenting drives and intoxication.

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