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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171216
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180115
DTSTAMP:20171212T102217Z
URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/gallery-liverpool-glamour-ben-yo
 udan/
SUMMARY:The Gallery Liverpool: The Gallery Liverpool: Glamour\, by Ben Youd
 an
DESCRIPTION:GLAMOUR Exhibition\nThe Gallery\, Liverpool\nPresented by DuoVi
 sion and Liverpool Pride\n16/12 - 14/01\nGlamour - the beauty and horror o
 f celebrity explored in new exhibition\nThe first major solo exhibition of
  artist Ben Youdan opens at The Gallery\, Liverpool. ‘Glamour’ feature
 s new and unseen work by the Liverpool based artist\, exploring the iconog
 raphy of glamour and celebrity\, the glitz and seedier underbelly of fame 
 and notoriety.\nWith work currently on display at the Museum of Liverpool\
 , part of the ‘Tales from the City’ exhibition\, ‘Glamour’ represe
 nts a major milestone in Youdan’s career. The exhibition is two years in
  the making. The work is simultaneously a celebration and a critique – e
 xamining how there is a duality to glamour as on the surface it can appear
  seductive\, appealing and beguiling but is often underpinned with an inhe
 rent dark sensibility .\nDistinguishing between ‘Glamour’ and ‘Beaut
 y in a media saturated world it is now impossible to see where one ends an
 d the other begins\, the mixed media artworks play on iconography. Eye-cat
 ching and vivid\, the works focus on the face using collage to highlight t
 he grittier side of Hollywood life\, using mixed materials and images to c
 hallenge the established norm of the “makeup” of celebrity.\nBen comme
 nts:\n“The artifice has become an aspiration thanks to the tabloids\, ne
 wsfeeds and television\, but this illusion is sold to us by the same corpo
 rations who glamorise death and murder to sell papers\, to bait clicks: My
 ra Hindley is as much a blond bombshell as Marilyn Monroe. The media age i
 n which we live is as equally compelling as it is confusing and the messag
 es contained within it are conflicting but seductive.\nThere is a particul
 ar relationship with glamour that queer people have that is fascinating. Q
 ueer people use glamour as a form of self-expression but also as a means o
 f escape. It can manifest itself within the fabric of our lives from the i
 dolisation of stars to the clothes we wear ourselves.\nDeath has its own g
 lamour and adds to the mythology of the icon. We love a tragic end to a gl
 amorous life – to feel heartbreak and pity and elevate the dead from cel
 ebrity to martyr. But alongside the fallen idols\, images of real life hor
 ror and tragedy are sold as a commodity. Scroll through your social media 
 timeline of choice and you will be sold the artifice of a Kardashian and t
 he horror of genocide in one screenshot. I believe that by combining these
  contrasting images we reveal something intimate about our collective psyc
 he.\nThe work is intended to make a statement about the human condition in
  the context of the new media age.”
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LOCATION:The Gallery Liverpool\, First floor\, The Courtyard\, 41 Stanhope 
 St\, Liverpool\, L8 5RE\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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