Artists push audiences to think beyond the media’s examples of war By Lynn Chawengwongsa Published in The Ticker on Oct. 19, 2015 “War Games” is neither an exhibition about the games children play during wartime, nor is it a showcasing of the props used in...
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Artists push audiences to think beyond the media’s examples of war By Lynn Chawengwongsa Published in The Ticker on Oct. 19, 2015 “War Games” is neither an exhibition about the games children play during wartime, nor is it a showcasing of the props used in the 1983 Matthew Broderick film. To ascribe such bluntness to “War Games” would be an insult to the ambiguous and the psychoanalytical qualities of the exhibition. “War Games” is about violence, both in war and modern life, and the refinement that often disguises it. Sprawled across three rooms in the Marlborough Chelsea gallery, the group exhibition takes its name and inspiration from Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “War Games” series,19871993. Out of all the works in her career spanning more than half a century, the original “War Games” has been called one of Abakanowicz’s stranger collections. The “War Games” series is in large part inspired by the artist’s life in Nazi- and Soviet-occupied Poland during the second World War
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