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Faile solo show at Brooklyn Museum, by motor on Mar 15, 2015 13:39:39 GMT 1, Coming up this summer

FAILE
Brooklyn Museum
July 10–October 4, 2015
(Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 5th Floor)


This exhibition features work by FAILE, a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Since 1999, together they have constructed multimedia installations, large-scale paintings, and sculptures.
The exhibition reunites their Temple and Deluxx Fluxx, both from 2010, and installs them alongside newer creations that highlight FAILE’s practice of appropriating and collaging mass-culture imagery to blur the lines between “high” and “low” art. FAILE’s Temple, originally installed in Praça dos Restauradores in Lisbon, is reminiscent of religious architecture, appearing to be in ruin and featuring their signature vernacular imagery culled from popular culture and advertising.
The second major component, Deluxx Fluxx is a collaboration with the Brooklyn-based artist Bäst. A nostalgic nod to classic video arcades, Deluxx Fluxx is an interactive installation that includes retrofitted video games, pinball machines, and foosball tables treated as sculptures. Together, these works invite visitors to participate actively in the installations and to consider FAILE’s goal of making art engaging, fun, and accessible to a broad audience. In this process, FAILE’s art raises questions about the world around us, especially our relationships to consumer culture, religious traditions, and the urban environment.

Organization: This exhibition is organized by Sharon Matt Atkins, Vice Director of Exhibitions and Collection Management, Brooklyn Museum.