The Bogart Salon
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Courtesy of the artist and The Bogart Salon
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Dec 9, 2011 – Feb 3
Mondays (noon–6pm)
Fridays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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“Walking into The Bogart Salon, you're stopped in your tracks by a haunting video of Sharon Tate standing, sitting, reading. This piece, a looped and edited version of a rare home movie by Roman Polanski, and a work in Nils Karsten's exhibit 1969, 1970, 1971, was found on the internet and transformed into a pointed statement by Karsten of the 60s utopian dream project gone awry. Tate, looking most angelic and innocent in this video, would soon be murdered by the Manson Family. Walk through the exhibit and you're presented with a selection of similar homages to this peculiar dream culture and explorations of what went wrong. A copy of the iconic album cover of Blind Faith, a self-titled album by the English supergroup—reimagined as a large-scale woodcut and placed next to a print from the woodcut—looks more like a mugshot than a painting or album cover and is cause for further examination of the subject. Other ghosts given similar treatment in this exhibit are the Beatles and Brian Jones also via woodcut and collage. If you haven't yet been to the newly opened building at 56 Bogart Street in Bushwick, this exhibit is a good reason to trek out there. There are numerous other exhibition spaces in the building to keep you duly interested and out of the cold for a while. When you're done, head to Roberta's across the street for pizza; if you don't mind the wait, that is.”
Rozalia Jovanovic, Flavorpill
