Massimo Guerrera: Darboral

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Other associated events: Opening Reception, Curator's and Artist's Talk, Saturday, October 14, 7:30 pm Artist's performance, Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning during gallery hours

Both playful and serious in intent, Massimo Guerrera's projects generate images and objects of uncertain and ambiguous origin, status and function. Usually of several years duration, these projects evince concern with a potential openess or porosity of the mind and the body. Exemplars of a new mode of art making called "relational aesthetics," Guerrera's projects call for audience participation, inviting "redeployment of the internal self within le corps-commun, a cosmology of relations with others." The relationships involved in the production, dissemination and consumption of food become metaphors for other kinds of social and economic interdependencies, Guerrera's 1995 Polyco Inc, for example, established a fictive corporation that prepared and served food on street corners. The artist's probing of links between incorporation, corporeality and relationality continues in Darboral, which has evolved through presentations at various locations since 2000. Darboral occasions on-site meals, spontaneous encounters, and conversations. At the Dunlop it may generate dispersals of pleasures and anxieties, shared meals, shifted anchor points, namings of postponed yearnings, acknowledgements of our imperfect imperviousness, allowances for the entry of ingredients for catastrophe, transformations of accidental and intentional gaps, and an opening up of the potential for delight - like a pomegranate. The exhibition is curated by Adjunct Curator Annette Hurtig.