Kenturah has the entire Narratives I-IV series included and on view now in a group exhibition taking place during the Venice Biennale.
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles
@ la Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2015
Exhibition Dates: May 9 - November 22, 2015
Magazzino del Sale No.3, Dorsoduro 264, Venezia, Italy
Presented in collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles is an exhibition that presents, for the first time on the international stage, a group of exceptional contemporary Los Angeles artists whose work makes Los Angeles one of the most exciting hubs of creativity in the world today.
We Must Risk Delight is inspired by the poem A Brief for the Defense by a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist, Jack Gilbert. In his viscerally visual poem, Gilbert calls on humanity to recognize every moment of delight even in the most ominous of impressions. By slicing through the somber depictions of the world we live in with sharp and vibrant moments of joy, the poet presents an irrefutable case for our happiness as being our most requisite expression of freedom, not in spite of the cruelty that is a part of our world, but because of it.
A work of art represents the artist’s vision of the world and, when embraced, it can be seen as a way of making a world. The artists presented in We Must Risk Delight will give the audiences of the Biennale Arte 2015 an opportunity to discover the city of Los Angeles through the kaleidoscope of its creative community, while also encouraging us all to risk delight and celebrate the act of creating as humanity’s pathway to joy: both within ourselves and in the collective world around us.
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles is being presented as an official Collateral Event of the 56th manifestation of la Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2015.
Presented Artists:
Brandy Eve Allen Tanya Batura Jamison Carter Carolyn Castaño
Robbie Conal Kenturah Davis Amir H. Fallah Alexandra Grant
Margaret Griffith Sherin Guirguis Ben Jackel Mark Licari
Rebecca Niederlander Stas Orlovski Natasa Prosenc Stearns Tony de los Reyes
Frank Ryan Shizu Saldamando Carole Silverstein Alexis Zoto