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Herald St is pleased to announce Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder), Michael Dean’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation continues Dean’s two-decade-long exploration of transposing language and experimental forms of typography into three-dimensional sculpture, often resulting in physical environments and immersive installations. His ideological interrogation inextricably binds symbolic histories and socio-political vicissitudes with his own quotidian narrative and personal history. The artist describes the act of an exhibition as an artifice, theatre, or stage, whereby ‘the gallery is a white page; the viewer is a protagonist; and the exhibition becomes a publication.’[1]
The exhibition is rooted in moksha patam, a Hindu board game thought to have originated as early as the tenth century in which players negotiate cycles of death, rebirth, and spiritual attainment, with serpents and ladders serving as karmic and virtuosic stratagems. Following...More
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Herald St is pleased to announce Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder), Michael Dean’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation continues Dean’s two-decade-long exploration of transposing language and experimental forms of typography into three-dimensional sculpture, often resulting in physical environments and immersive installations. His ideological interrogation inextricably binds symbolic histories and socio-political vicissitudes with his own quotidian narrative and personal history. The artist describes the act of an exhibition as an artifice, theatre, or stage, whereby ‘the gallery is a white page; the viewer is a protagonist; and the exhibition becomes a publication.’[1]
The exhibition is rooted in moksha patam, a Hindu board game thought to have originated as early as the tenth century in which players negotiate cycles of death, rebirth, and spiritual attainment, with serpents and ladders serving as karmic and virtuosic stratagems. Following...More
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