Attitude as antidote
<p>The group exhibition <em>No Dandy, No Fun</em>, a fascinating enquiry into dandyism in art, was meant to be the grand finale of the Kunsthalle Bern’s recent sequence of shows featuring dandy artists such as Michael Krebber and Marc Camille Chaimowicz. In opposition to essentialist conceptions of identity, the dandy is presented as a counter-model who makes his life his work of art in an act of simultaneous exuberant self-affirmation and fantasized self-effacement. For this inclusive re-reading, the curators Hans-Christian Dany and Valérie Knoll have endowed the dandy, who above all embodies an attitude, with augmented subversive powers.</p>
Authors: Sylvain Menétrey
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Art Director: Sabo Day
Code: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISBN: 22979220
ISSN: 2297-9220