call to artists!
Lessons in History Vol. II – Democracy
scheduled August/September (see below)
Due to the inundation of the gallery in the January floods, this exhibition has been postponed until December 2011 or early 2012.
‘… in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.’ Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)
Graham Greene’s character expresses contempt for democracy in stark contrast to our sense of ‘democracy’ as a ‘feel-good’ idea. With missionary zeal, we have undertaken wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in part to bring a western ‘democratic system’ to the citizens of these countries.
But is the ‘democracy’ we wish to impose already broken? Will the cuckoo clock be all that is left?
Call to artists!
To submit an artist book for selection in Lessons in History Vol. II – Democracy, a 2011 exhibition of artists’ books on the subject of ‘Democracy’.
Email Grahame Galleries for form for submission