DC Moore, like many of the stronger galleries in Chelsea went with a large group show to ring in the summer. With such a title one would expect a dark show filled with allegory and a true sense of desperation that many including myself often feel about our present paradigm. The truth is the show is more or less a playful mockery of this religious realty. Most of the works if not all are self portraits or in there least self referential to the ego of the artist. Are we in fact as artists these Beasts who are ringing in the end of time? Truthfully we need to move past this and be the individual saviors of society. We are the last independent free thinking individuals! We should be coming up with the solutions to the worlds problems. But the quantitative controllers don't let this happen leaving us on the periphery to struggle and play the commodity fetish game of the art market relying on them as our support. When in realty they should look to us as leaders or partners. Matt Freedman's Sculpture above to me says exactly this! He is Heracles club in hand and can return after exile to ring in a time of great prosperity. However his power is simply limited by a system way beyond him. Forcing him to be simply be a bobble head shaking around as the world crumbles.
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