ART EXHIBIT

"The Travels of Bad" by Zander Blom

Venue: What if the World... 208 Albert Rd, Woodstock. Tel: (021) 448 1438.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 10:00am - 5:00pm, Sat: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Duration: 28 May - 27 Jun 2009

After two years in the making, Zander Blom’s latest solo exhibition and publication arrives at the Whatiftheworld / Gallery in Cape Town this June.

The show documents the travels of an idealist Machiavellian hero, guitar in hand, on a crusade to revitalise the arts of the culture capital of the world. Fueled by equal measures of blind optimism and hedonism, the search for new ideas and exotic flavours takes our hero to a fictional paradise setting where this bizarre satirical action tragedy literally starts to unravel.

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 The Travels of Bad comprises a 48-page mini-novella with 17 photographic works and a 17-track album soundtrack. The exhibition also includes a selection of sculptures and merchandise.

The Travels of Bad is essentially a satire that looks critically at the influence that exotic cultures and their artefacts have had on the avant-garde system of European visual art from the end of the 19th century onwards. The critique comes in the shape of mini-novella that is illustrated by a series of photographic works and accompanied by a pseudo rock-opera type symphonic drone thrash metal rock album.

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