Ronald Feldman Gallery
31 Mercer St
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Cameron Hayes, The Russians knew perfectly well that the happiness of the African animals was that they had such low expectations - before the pets were introduced, Copyright Cameron Hayes, Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
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Opens Saturday May 17, 2008 (6–8pm)
May 17, 2008 – June 28, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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For his second solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Australian artist Cameron Hayes parodies colonialism's effect on his native country with an absurdist sense of humor. His sculptural tableau of cartoonish stuffed animals, The Incomplete History of the Millikapiti, tells of the ill-fated Tiwis, who resort to domestic violence after white settlers provide them with eyeglasses. Mixing comedy, pathos, and folk-art traditions, Hayes's large-scale paintings, created in the tradition of Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, depict the surreal consequences of human interference. One work chronicles how domesticated pets bring about the demise of jungle animals in Africa, and in another, deer become dehydrated after Ivan Pavlov trains them to salivate at the sound of ringing bells.
