San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
800 Chestnut St
415.749.4563
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Jens Haaning, Radovan
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Jan 23, 2008 – Mar 8, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Note: There is an opening reception Wed Jan 23 (5:30-7:30pm).
Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy with capitalism's rules of commodification, grapple with xenophobia, and cunningly send the stolid institution of the art gallery into paroxysms. Haaning's previous projects have seen him broadcast jokes in Turkish through loudspeakers blaring on the streets of Oslo and turning a gallery into a workshop for the production of weapons, a discount travel agency, and a shop for reduced-tariff imported foods (respectively). His clever conceptualism continues to push against the status quo with this new show.
