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Exhibitions Oxford. Bing Bang Boom. Art Donovan to Curate Premiere Steampunk Art Exhibition. The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. The Curated Object

Email-Steampunk Museum Exhibition at Oxford



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Objects often refuse to be endearing. Revolting against the crime scene of sentimentality they outlive us with their refusals, visible only in moments of slippage (between word-object-image) that ultimately reveal the failure of narratives that try to contain them or foist upon them a disposition. 

Steampunk artists know this and embrace an object's tenacity, their creations honoring the materiality of life, love and the visceral complexities that categorically refuse the stale rhythm of self-absorption that fetishizes the "new." But temporality is a bitch and this is exactly what Art Donovan's landmark exhibition at the esteemed Museum of the History of Science at Oxford illuminates. No less than 12 world-renowned artists of the Steampunk genre from the U.S., UK, Japan, the Netherlands and Australia will offer a view of their contraptions and most brilliant corruptions. Illuminating the foreign and familiar of the Victorian cultural unconscious, Donovan's exhibition is a coup for the curious. -- Joanne Molina

Exhibition dates: October 13, 2009 - February 21, 2010

To read about the Steampunk genre and Mr. Donovan’s previous Bridgehampton exhibition, click here:

www.hamptons.com/The-Arts/In-the-Galleries/4486/Steampunk-Art-And-Design-Exhibits-In-The-Hamptons.html

                          

To follow the museum exhibition updates, visit his blog:

www.steampunkmuseumexhibition.blogspot.com

 

Information contact:

Art Donovan, Curator

Southampton, NY

donovandesign@optonline.net

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