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Kendell Geers’s Irrespektiv Travels To Mart Rovereto

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FuckfaceFollowing stays at the S.M.A.K., in Ghent, Belgium; UK’s Baltic Cetnre for Contemporary Art; DA2 in Salamanca, Spain; and Le Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Kendell Geers’s Irrespektiv exhibition will next grace the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, better known under the more wieldy acronym, The Mart. The show opens on open on October 31 and runs through January 17, 2010.

We designed the 300-page monograph that accompanies the traveling show. Check it out here; buy it here.

Kendell Geers at Yvon Lambert Paris

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Not a shot from a Norwegian metal show but a self-portrait of artist Kendell Geers!

Today marks the opening of Kendell Geers’ new exhibition, The Waste Land, at Yvon Lambert Paris. The exhibition is inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Wasteland (1922) whereby Geers draws parallels between the poet’s dark elegy and the disintegrating foundations, beliefs, and ideologies in today’s world. … more

Kendell Geers: Irrespektiv

Kendell Geers Book Cover

Kendell Geers Irrespektiv cover, slipcase

He’s blown up museum walls, framed his semen, and pissed in Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”. Since the early 90s, South African artist Kendell Geers has made a name for himself as … more