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6/7/2006 |
8/7/2006
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!
Pairing former lovers Missy
Wiggins & Billy Conklin for the first time in a public
exhibition at Detroit's Museum of New Art.
It has been a year to the day since the London tube bombings.
British artists Billy Conklin and Missy Wiggins don't want
anyone to forget the fact. Although they have split as lovers,
the two have gotten together one last time for the exhibition
KISS KISS BANG BANG! to open July 7th at Detroit's Museum of New
Art (MONA).
This joint exhibition examines the after-shock of the London
bombings in our day-to-day lives, most personally the toll it
took on their own romance. The two artists called it quits
shortly after the attacks, as lovers and collaborators. Since
then Conklin's career has rocketed skyward, while Wiggin's has
wallowed despite allegations that Conklin plagiarized her work
to build his separate career - including a sex tape (to be
screened at this exhibit).
Billy Conklin is England's most dubious contemporary artist. In
2004 after his sculpture of an abused child, Hatrack, failed to
auction at its $1.2m reserve (now £686,000), ArtNow magazine put
him at number forty-eight on a list of the art world's VIPs. It
was the highest ranking for any living artist residing in
Norwich.
The Croydon-born artist Missy
Wiggins - best known for her disturbing installations of art to
be destroyed - said she had had an affair with Conklin before he
became famous and that she was the source for many of his ideas.
Still, Missy is willing to put all that aside to mark this
somber anniversary. "I want this chance," she says with a
quavering voice. "The chance to place my art side by side with
Billy's. And for the public to see how I've been
totally buggered."
As for Billy, he shrugs off Wiggin's claims.
"We were all affected that day in London somehow," Conklin says.
"The whole
nation I think. It’s been exactly a year now. And we’ve all
become a part of
what happened then. To some degree or another. We’ve all become
victims now.
And that's truly what this exhibition will expose."
THE SHOOTING OF JEAN CHARLES de MENEZES by Missy
Wiggins
A re-creation of the shooting of Jean Charles de
Menezes by police at the
Stockwell tube on July 22, 2005.
opening reception: Saturday,
July 8th from 7 to 10pm
regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday
The Museum of New Art (MONA) is
located at 7 North Saginaw, Pontiac.
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang |
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dal 7/7/06
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Detroit |
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USA |
| SEDE |
Museum of New Art |
| INDIRIZZO |
1249 Washington Boulevard |
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