UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageGig Depio: Rebuilders
- January 15, 2021 - April 02, 2021
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Gig Depio
Fait Accompli (2015)
Graphite on paper
Here, the muzzled dog from "Requiem for the Outsiders" and "Breaking Armistice" is being ignored by a new form of authority, while Depio’s method of using blue-chip artists to represent aspects of the art world has moved on from the portrait of Damien Hirst in the bottom left corner of Armistice and manifested itself as one of Jeff Koons’ balloon dogs. (In Armistice, Hirst is every artist who schemes “to take over the world.”) Looking back, Depio sees that even the years he spent working construction have helped him become the artist he is today. “Art belongs to outsiders. You don’t belong to the mainstream. That just happens after the fact.”
(DK Sole, curator)
- Created: 2015