Male Art
Venue: 44AD artspace ● BA1 1NN ● click for map
Private View ● Fri 22 May ● 6pm ‘til late
Exhibition open 23 May to 6 June ● 11am - 6pm
'Male Art' brings together artists with a range of perspectives on being male. The exhibition explores spaces where maleness is performed; from public spaces of masculinity to private, domestic and inner worlds. The relationships between an emotional, embodied experience and a culturally sanctioned idea of maleness is a recurring theme. 'Male Art' is a nuanced reflection on identity, expectation, vulnerability, privilege and shame. Ultimately, 'Male Art' hopes to disrupt the patriarchy by repositioning 'male' to an othered, gendered, and intersectional subject.
Exhibiting Artists
Andy Sylvester, Chris Twiney, Danilo Zocatelli, Ian Blyth, James Robert Morrison, John Wigley, Jota, Julian Konuk, Max Whetter, Oliver Kirkham, Peter Skerrett, Ricardo Sleiman, Steve Burden, Thomas Llyr James, Tom Wilmott, Trevor H Smith.
Curator Mark Fearbunce
Curated by Mark Fearbunce
Mark is a white man and one quarter immigrant. He is homosexual and a father to two boys. Mark has a couple of degrees and once did a cycling proficiency test.
Mark has spent most of the 21st century teaching. He has written and led fine art degree and diploma programmes, is currently a freelance gallery educator and associate lecturer in visual culture. Mark has also continued his own practice as an artist and curator with exhibitions in the UK, Spain and the USA.
Mark’s art practice investigates the systems that are normalised in our culture. By subverting or mis-applying these systems, he hopes to reveal that organisation is often arbitrary and closer to ritual than logic. Projects have included exploring the order of the alphabet, international postal systems and the status of art itself. These kinds of inquiry also extend to recontextualising the function and histories of found objects.