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Art
Richard Wearn

When

20 Jan 2010 – 27 Feb 2010

Wednesdays–Saturdays (noon–6pm)

Where
Crisp London (3 Newman Passage, W1, 07837.861.935) Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.crisplondonlosangeles.com/2010/richard-wearn-2/
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LA-based Richard Wearn's wryly ambiguous art combines performance, photography, video and a healthy obsession with history. "Untitled" features photos of tiny architectural models placed around Paris in locations synonymous with the May 1968 uprising. "Trouw (Fidelity)" meanwhile is a video installation documenting the changing light atop an Amsterdam building that boasts a history of fomenting progressive quasi-anarchy, from WWII resistance to modern-day raves. In both cases, his counter-intuitive method of blending the past (what has been lost) with the present (the action he takes) leads straight to the future (what might be gained by using one's imagination).

Shana Nys Dambrot