Museum of Metaphors
Program, P.1826
- Identifier
- P.1826
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- April 19 – 26, 2003
- Description
- Extended Anniversary Installation. As a special commission to celebrate Open Space's 30th Anniversary, Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens will decorate the foyer of the gallery as a Rococo ‘ode to the patron’. They will specifically reference singerie, a satirical style of decorative painting from the 18th century in which monkeys are depicted performing human activities. This site-specific, trompe l’oeil installation, which invites the viewer to be complicit with decorative deception, will be part of the collaborative duo's ongoing investigation into representation, illusion and illustration.