On June 12, 2009, the contemporary art center Grand Arts in Kansas
City inaugurated a retrospective of the artist Juvenal Merst. A day
after the opening, a public panel discussion was held with the
closest acquaintances and scholars of the artist's work. The
visitors to this event became unsuspecting witnesses of a unique
experiment that blurred the line between real life and theater,
using the tools of drama and the conventions of academic
presentations to provide a reflection about the art world's current
state of mind in its various contradictions, its desires, and its
conflicts. This edition includes the original text of the play
along with an exhibition essay and audience commentary.
"Translating stilted art discourse into theater opens a rich vein
of satire that Helguera deftly exploits. ...] Helguera's latest
effort pulls back the curtain with a theatrical flourish to reveal
our collusion - through vocabulary, sartorial choice, gesticulation
or egotistical promotion of our hard-earned roles - with the chain
of command." Lyra Kilston, Afterall Magazine " A truly brilliant
satire in the maximally ambitious form of a Gesamtkunstwerk
incorporating every person and object in the space." David
Cateforis, Professor of American, Modern and Contemporary art,
University of Kansas "Pablo Helguera is ...] a splendid liar, a
first-class storyteller, a curious mind constantly in search of
stories, a creator of parallel universes and impossible characters
living in credible situations, which invariably probe our
certainties, intuition, and knowledge ...] On this peculiar and
distorted stage, time, space, myth, emotion, interpretation, and a
voracious search for meaning create an intimate (slanted,
idiosyncratic, devoted, and corrosive) portrait of that revered and
wonderful freak show that we know as the art world." Naief Yehya,
from the foreword Pablo Helguera is a visual artist living in New
York whose works and performances have been presented in museums
and art spaces internationally. He is the author of the books The
Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style, The Boy Inside the
Letter, The Witches of Tepoztln (and Other Unpublished Operas),
Artoons, and Theatrum Anatomicum (and Other Performance Lectures).
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