Ian F. Svenonius
Fri, Apr 14, 2017
6:30 pm
Frances Stark (b. 1967), Ian F. Svenonius’s Censorship Now for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 1 of 8 (Sincerely), 2017. Gesso, ink, oil, and acrylic on canvas, 79 × 104 in. (188 × 264.2 cm). Collection of the artist; courtesy Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
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For her contribution to the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Frances Stark painted eight spreads from Ian F. Svenonius’s 2015 book Censorship Now!!. In dialogue with Stark’s project, Svenonius presents a lecture on the concept of re-education.
Ian F. Svenonius is the singer for underground music groups such as the Nation of Ulysses, the Make Up, Weird War, and Chain & the Gang. He is the author of several books including The Psychic Soviet, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock n Roll Group, and Censorship Now!!. Svenonius is a leading organizer of the anti-authoritarian Committee for Ending Freedom (CEF).
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