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The Atrocity Exhibition

Exhibition guide relating to an exhibition, 1986
Published by: The Black Art Gallery
Year published: 1986
Unpaginated.

image of The Atrocity Exhibition

Slightly larger than A4 document folded in half (portrait) double sided black and white reproduced document/an artist publication to accompany an exhibition

Title: The Atrocity Exhibition & Other Empire Stories: An Exhibition of Work by Donald G Rodney of the BLK ART Group. 12 July - 2 August 1986 The Black Art Gallery - 225 Seven Sisters Road, London N4

The page is covered in text of different sizes and layout - the text on the inside reads as a set of statements that are numbered and have headings - these are: 1. Pilgrim Father; 2. Great Expectations; 3. Ghosts in the Machine; 4. Master & Servant; 5. Psalm 38/Edge of Darkness; 6. Confusion/portrait of the artist as a young man; 7. Civis Britanius Sum; 8. Flesh; 9. The Confederancy of Dunces; 10. Ikon. The text on the front serves as an artists statement of the exhibition: “These words can only supplement those used within the exhibition itself which are reproduced here so that you can take them away with you“ Donald Rodney.

Related people

»  Donald Rodney

Born, 1961 in Birmingham, England. Died, 1998

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»  The Black-Art Gallery

London, United Kingdom