PIXNIT Exhibition at the DeCordova

PIXNIT Productions is pleased to announce a new installation by the artist PIXNIT at the DeCordova Museum. "Folie que la nouveauté"(Follylike novelty), commissioned and designed for The Café @ DeCordova is on view now and is an ongoing exhibition.

PIXNIT’s work on the streets significantly informs her indoor aesthetic. Her graffiti art is based on imagery from the history of decorative arts, applied with spray paint through hand-cut stencils. By inserting visual quotations from 17th- through 19th-century architectural ornament, ironwork, and wallpaper into the contemporary urban fabric, PIXNIT created an anonymous public art that commented on urban design, decorative fashion, the uses and misuses of social space, and issues surrounding renewal and beautification.

For the DeCordova, PIXNIT’s technique and sources remain the same, but are complicated and enriched by several factors. Foremost is her prominent reproduction of a 1797 etching by Alexis Chataigner, which satirically contrasts characteristic dress and behavior before and after the French Revolution. PIXNIT’s imagery also responds specifically to the unique architectural, functional, and social space of The Café itself. In sum, Folie que la nouveauté addresses the perennial interweavings of fashion and politics, the contemporary and the historical, and the real and the faux.


For more information on the DeCordova Museum and this exhibition please cut and paste the following url:

www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/PIXNIT.htm