Added to this are abstract Suicide Paintings forming chapel-like spaces. They are both sculptures and vessels for exchange, or as the French would call them: vases communicantes. One sculpture offers candies and pins with Pruitts edicts on art making the other is a collection plate for rotating charities. At the entrance of the exhibition, People Feeders (2010) welcome you. The Congregation is part of a larger project of painting and sculpture referring to the Amish period of youthful abandon called Rumspringa, and pays homage to the very human schism between the individual and the group. It includes The Congregation (2010), a group of found chairs unified with silver tape. It introduces the American artists multifaceted practice including painting, sculpture, drawing, furniture, performative events, zines, everyday objects, political statements, and souvenirs. First of all, Rob Pruitt: The Church is a classic one-person exhibition with works spanning from 1999 to 2017. This is where we, the visitors, sneak it, or rather get drawn in it is the space where the something else comes into play mastered by the artists light-handed joggling of desperation and wit as well as salesmanship and generosity.Īll this appears to be a perfect fit for Kunsthalle Zürich, and it is. Truth is, we fall in love with the images he convenes and the way he exposes their powers, while, at the same time, keeping them on hold. It has brought him respect and admiration, and sometimes criticism. Towards the end of the decade, Pruitt went solo to further explore the territory where pop touches you. They parted ways and found work outside the art world, mostly odd jobs. The artists career imploded and so did their personal relationship as a couple. The show shifted the subject to African American culture and became a scandal.
What now looks like a prescient analysis, became a sensation and led to a show at Leo Castelli. They dissected the culture of white teenage boys and male privilege creating a portrait of the enemy. It started in the early 1990s in collaboration with fellow artist Jack Early for what became the infamous duo Pruitt & Early. It has produced a large and multiform body of work, which is light, enchanting and always something else too. Pruitt masters it to perfection, his is a performance in style, and ultimately an exercise in comedy and tragedy. What may seem easy, is in reality a risky and virtuous balancing act with one foot potentially stuck in the mud. Exactly this is the challenge of Rob Pruitts art as it explores the fertile and shallow grounds both separating and unifying art and easy. «Rob Pruitt makes art easy» as the New York fashion photographer Cris Moor once put it.
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