Currency @ Swiss National Bank, Zurich
Soccer Club Club•Jun 17, 2021 — Jul 23, 2021
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Drag City/Soccer Club Club, in collaboration with Currency, is pleased to announce Currency@Swiss National Bank, Zurich, a two-person exhibition by Danny Bredar and Leah Ke Yi Zheng. This exhibition originally inhabited the Swiss National Bank in Zurich and has been re-realized for the context of Soccer Club Club in Chicago. Currency is a groundless and fictional gallery, invented in the first months of the pandemic as a response to the placelessness and crisis of presence become rampant. Bredar and Zheng’s prior Currency exhibition was held in Münster, Germany, adjacent to the Ruin Your Life tattoo parlor.
Bredar has been obsessed with the Velázquez painting Kitchen Scene (c. 1619) in the Art Institute of Chicago since 2017. In a eureka moment, he discovered that there is a self-portrait reflection of Velázquez in the concave brass bowl, a silhouette that is unmentioned in the art historical literature. Garlic skin is adhered to this prime sequence of 11 paintings.
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Currency @ Swiss National Bank, Zurich
Soccer Club Club•Jun 17, 2021 — Jul 23, 2021
Press Release
Drag City/Soccer Club Club, in collaboration with Currency, is pleased to announce Currency@Swiss National Bank, Zurich, a two-person exhibition by Danny Bredar and Leah Ke Yi Zheng. This exhibition originally inhabited the Swiss National Bank in Zurich and has been re-realized for the context of Soccer Club Club in Chicago. Currency is a groundless and fictional gallery, invented in the first months of the pandemic as a response to the placelessness and crisis of presence become rampant. Bredar and Zheng’s prior Currency exhibition was held in Münster, Germany, adjacent to the Ruin Your Life tattoo parlor.
Bredar has been obsessed with the Velázquez painting Kitchen Scene (c. 1619) in the Art Institute of Chicago since 2017. In a eureka moment, he discovered that there is a self-portrait reflection of Velázquez in the concave brass bowl, a silhouette that is unmentioned in the art historical literature. Garlic skin is adhered to this prime sequence of 11 paintings.
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