Casey Kaplan
Artists Talk on Art
Matthew Brannon: Concerning Vietnam
Monday, November 18, 6 – 7:30pm
12 West 12th Street, New York, New York 10011
Organized and moderated by Peter Duhon
“Often when artists make art about war it’s usually very clear: war is bad. What I’m trying to say is that this is not protest art. I see myself acting as more of a historian or a biographer, I’m taking one war and trying to understand it, and I’m allowing the viewer to make whatever bridges they can to our contemporary situation” Matthew Brannon.
A decade-long quest to understand the impact and meaning of the Vietnam conflict. Research is the project’s horizon and eventual forms has included: print, sculpture, text, lectures and film. Brannon explores How art can address a history or a trauma or how an inherited history of a trauma is itself a subject. The complexity of the American experience of the Vietnam war makes simplification disproportionately difficult and conceptually challenging.
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