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COBRA - Story of eggs (bird gallery for birds)

$5,000.00

Story of eggs (bird gallery for birds), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, bird cage, and various other materials

14.25 × 11.25 × 18.125 in

An excerpt from the exhibition text written by Ron Ewert for COBRA’s 2023 solo show “彼らは、透明に、爽やかに 、ただ酔い漂う目玉なのさ They’re transparent, refreshing, just intoxicated, drifting eyeballs” at Good Weather: ”Design alone cannot bestow liberation. Mere options do not indicate freedom anymore than isolation grants insight into the self. Cages, boundaries, limits and authority are not always, perhaps even rarely visible or perceptible, yet often in some sense, known intuitively. The omnipresent superstructure of language, with its dominant visual component, establishes the fertile realm of common sense and grammatical expectation that COBRA naturally undermines. While nearly every aspect of the relationship of language to the senses is dripping with absurd incongruities, COBRA is choosing to conflate several distinct subjects in looping sequence. Of primary concern is the human relationship with animals (the animal), who both share the same basic needs and desires; food, shitting, shelter, sex. The key differences between birds and people as presented by COBRA are the appreciation of aesthetics, recreation (though this is debatable), and the conceptualization of time and freedom.”

Courtesy of the artist and Good Weather, Chicago/Little Rock.

Available to purchase directly for local pickup. To inquire about specialized shipping and handling options for this item, please email Daeja@latitudechicago.org prior to purchase.

Story of eggs (bird gallery for birds), 2023

Acrylic on canvas, bird cage, and various other materials

14.25 × 11.25 × 18.125 in

An excerpt from the exhibition text written by Ron Ewert for COBRA’s 2023 solo show “彼らは、透明に、爽やかに 、ただ酔い漂う目玉なのさ They’re transparent, refreshing, just intoxicated, drifting eyeballs” at Good Weather: ”Design alone cannot bestow liberation. Mere options do not indicate freedom anymore than isolation grants insight into the self. Cages, boundaries, limits and authority are not always, perhaps even rarely visible or perceptible, yet often in some sense, known intuitively. The omnipresent superstructure of language, with its dominant visual component, establishes the fertile realm of common sense and grammatical expectation that COBRA naturally undermines. While nearly every aspect of the relationship of language to the senses is dripping with absurd incongruities, COBRA is choosing to conflate several distinct subjects in looping sequence. Of primary concern is the human relationship with animals (the animal), who both share the same basic needs and desires; food, shitting, shelter, sex. The key differences between birds and people as presented by COBRA are the appreciation of aesthetics, recreation (though this is debatable), and the conceptualization of time and freedom.”

Courtesy of the artist and Good Weather, Chicago/Little Rock.

Available to purchase directly for local pickup. To inquire about specialized shipping and handling options for this item, please email Daeja@latitudechicago.org prior to purchase.

COBRA

COBRA (b. 1981 Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese artist and founder of XYZ Collective, an artist-run gallery based in Tokyo, Japan. Using various disciplines such as video, performance, sculpture, and painting, COBRA intends to present trifling contradictions hidden within both art history and our daily lives, with a dose of humor. COBRA received his BFA in the Department of Ceramic, Glass, and Metal Works from Tama Art University (Tokyo). He has extensively exhibited in Japan as well as in North America at Good Weather (Chicago), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), 356 Mission (Los Angeles), Springsteen (Baltimore), Good Weather hosted by Gutter Box (Raleigh, North Carolina), The Apartment (Vancouver), Brennan & Griffin (New York), Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago), and Freedman Fitzpatrick (Los Angeles), among others.