Connections To Contradiction

Anyone remember North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il? He's the now-defunct daddy of the country's current weirdly coiffed dictator, Kim Jong-un, and he apparently had a zany knack for obsessive accumulation. Take, for example, the International Friendship Exhibition. Originally a repository for all kinds of kitschy knickknacks the elder Kim...

By Lee Zimmerman

November 27, 2014

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Anyone remember North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il? He's the now-defunct daddy of the country's current weirdly coiffed dictator, Kim Jong-un, and he apparently had a zany knack for obsessive accumulation. Take, for example, the International Friendship Exhibition. Originally a repository for all kinds of kitschy knickknacks the elder Kim collected during his time at the top, it's now being memorialized in an upcoming art exhibition of the same name set to open at Primary Gallery (151 NE Seventh St., Miami) this Wednesday at 5 p.m. Sponsored by Primary Projects, a multidisciplinary exhibition space in downtown Miami; and Family, a group that supports emerging artists and their initiatives, this artistic incarnation of the International Friendship Exhibition will feature a collection of works from 19 renowned artists — Autumn Casey, Jim Drain, Gavin Perry, Asif Farooq, Magnus Sodamin, Cole Sternberg, Cody Hudson, and Michael Vasquez among them — all paying tribute to the concept of contradiction. Says Primary Projects founder and curator Books Bischof: “While ‘International Friendship Exhibition’ is an examination of a complicated idea, it’s at its core a display of actual familial community, local artists and non-Miamians alike learning from each other.” Visit thisisprimary.com and familyartists.com.
Wed., Dec. 3, 5 p.m.; Thu., Dec. 4, 10 a.m.; Fri., Dec. 5, 10 a.m.; Sat., Dec. 6, 10 a.m.; Sun., Dec. 7, 10 a.m., 2014

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