Opens Jan 9:
“Love is the Drug”
Rose Eken
Munch Gallery, 245 Broome St., NYC (at Ludlow St.)
subway: F/M to Delan./Essex St. or D to Grand St.
exhibition of embroidery and glazed ceramic sculpture. “Rose Eken’s art is about rock music. An eclectic genre that is both raw and embracing. There is nothing as emotive as music – both to the individual and the collective, music has a unique ability to evoke the most charged of human emotions: love, hatred, intimacy, injustice – and good old-fashioned Weltschmerz. But rock culture also delineates a story of rebellion, revolution and revolt against the sexually repressed bourgeois culture. All of these traits can be found in Eken’s artwork; the wild uncontrolled nerve of rock ’n’ roll subtly curbed by a sensible disposition. Yet what appears restrained and controlled retains a ring of the fierce and the savage” - Maria Kjær Themsen
