Black Ark, a free series of public events, complements artist Gary Simmons' exhibition “Remembering Tomorrow,” a collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures installed inside Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles through May 22.
a collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures installed inside Hauser & Wirth’s two north galleries through May 22. These works explore race, identity and nostalgia. Using 1930s animated characters Bosko and Honey as primary muses, and employing a line-blurring erasure technique that has become his calling card, Simmons both wipes away and calls attention to racist imagery of the past.
In a lot of ways, this show is almost like a museum show because you have a sampler of pretty much every form that I work in. It starts with drawing, goes into painting in different sizes and scale, then it goes intoThen you come outside and the Ark really activates the courtyard. It’s like this controlled, almost park environment, and when there’s a performance, it really becomes this intimate space between the performer and the audience. I love the exchange.