Retrograde, Logan Center for the Arts

Featuring work by faculty Brendan Fernandes.

Opening Reception
Friday, November 11, 6–8pm
Logan Center Gallery

Retrogarde is an international group exhibition that explores contemporary artists’ recuperation and appropriation of avant-garde strategies, histories, and archives in their work. Conceptually and formally, the works in this exhibition adopt a series of recognizable avant-garde forms—fusing play with the profane; detourning language, space, and matter; and working through performative actions and interventions—to address the politics of everyday life. Taken together these works highlight the continued relevance of avant-garde perspectives today. Yet the artists’ attitude towards this lineage is not one of blind veneration but rather pervasive disobedience, mirroring the transgressive actions of their predecessors. Consequently, Retrogarde infuses other viewpoints, narratives, and contexts to open up our collective reading of avant-garde traditions. Artists in the exhibition include Caroline Bergvall, Brendan Fernandes, Samson Kambalu, Matthew Metzger, Catherine Sullivan and Samson Young.

This exhibition is part of Concrete Happenings – a series of exhibitions, screenings and symposia that mark the return of Wolf Vostell’s landmark sculpture Concrete Traffic (1970) to public view following a major conservation effort. More information here.

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