Jason Rhoades

The Black Pussy… and the Pagan Idol Workshop

21 September - 29 October 2005

London

Hauser and Wirth London are pleased to announce the first major UK solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Jason Rhoades. The Black Pussy… and the Pagan Idol Workshop refers to a specific group of 360 lonely sculptures and idols, constructed from a core collection, as well as other elements assembled by the artist. This diverse array of objects serves as a type of palette, or pool, from which the artist reconstructs the collection of idols once housed within the Ka’bah in the time before Mohammad. The Black Pussy is an interpretation of, and sequel to, the 360 pagan idols destroyed in the 7th century when he declared that there is only One God and that he cannot be represented in material form.

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Jason Rhoades

Jason Rhoades (1965 – 2006) was a visionary artist and world builder for whom sculpture and myth were intertwined forms of construction. His epic assemblage installations established him as a force of the international art world in the 1990s, while based in Los Angeles. America was his art’s imaginative subject,...

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