The Contemporary comes together with Mergers & Acquisitions
Friday, January 9th, 2009
SPACING OUT: "Boundary Issues," 2008 by Brian Bell and David Yocum
Painters of a certain stripe know that their best work is sometimes their fastest work; pictures that emerge in a sudden rush with no time for second guesses or backward glances.
Mergers & Acquisitions, a wide-ranging group exhibition currently on view at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, benefits from a similar sense of urgency and shortness of time. Due to a last-minute cancellation, curator Stuart Horodner was forced to fill the Contemporary with an entirely new show in a matter of weeks. A show of this scope would normally take several months or even years to plan. Fortunately, Mergers & Acquisitions takes risky leaps of curatorial intuition that pay off in surprising and dramatic ways.
Mr. Horodner, speed becomes you.
Mergers & Acquisitions is built around a number of artistic calls and responses. (more…)
