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FOOL’S ERRANT Spring Break Art Fair Manhattan Group Exhibition including 2023
Josh Green curated a booth with artist Yael Ben-Simon
Exhibition Statment: It’s tempting to find parallels between the fool and the artist. Like the artist, the fool is a controversial figure. Some view him as a benevolent being, good-hearted and funny. Others swear that despite his bubbly disposition, he is truly and utterly dangerous. As a result, we get the archetype of the paradoxically sad and brooding clown. Artists nowadays seem to adopt these polarities, in an attempt to navigate opposing expectations. Aiming to please and entertain, they traverse the increasingly problematic art market whilst always hinting at an alluringly pernicious matter at the core of their practice. Just like the mercurial tramp, the works in the show tend to vacillate emotionally between whim and solemnity. With sculptures as their subject matter, they articulate a relationship to past traditions rendered through the use of new technologies. The artists borrow, shuffle and distort their imagery using 3d scanning, modeling and other forms of digital world building. Their compositions, while realistic in style, are not looking to any recognizable domains but are rather inspired by the esoteric or the incongruent.