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Bass & Reiner Gallery
May 16 - June 20, 2015Info
1275 Minnesota StreetMinnesota Street ProjectGallery 207 San Francisco, CA 94107 Google Map »
Reception
May 23, 2015 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
CAMINO, Ninos, 2011
Bass & Reiner Gallery is proud to present Amen. Featuring the work of Mexican collective CAMINO (composed of María José Baes and Daniela Michelle Ramirez) and Taravat Talepasand, AMEN brings together a collection of sculptures inspired by the forms of devotional iconos. A contemporary look at the production of spiritual art, both CAMINO and Talepasand use repetition, reproduction, and alteration to examine how religious imagery holds its power today. CAMINO organizes creative projects primarily with artists from Mexico City. They are interested in examining how contemporary visionaries of Mexico are influenced by traditional culture. For AMEN they will present NIÑO X CAMINO,where they distributed a diverse range of artists from Mexico with blank plaster casts of the baby Jesus found in Kings Cakes for alteration and intervention. At Bass & Reiner we will present 50, including contributions by Andrés Gamiochimpi, Juanjosé Rivas,Taravat Talepasand and many more. Taravat Talepasand is a San Francisco based artists whose work explores the limits of acceptable and unacceptable behavior according to the ethics of her Persian heritage. For AMEN,and in dialogue with NIÑO X CAMINO from CAMINO, Talepasand will present a series of porcelain sculptures, Mullahs Ghost. By engaging with tradition and cultural spectacle, AMEN is about symbolic taboo, and the perpetuated gap between generations within a new, modern aesthetic movement. Amen is curated by Mariel Bayona, with assistance from Cléa Massiani. So be it.