Elmgreen & Dragset's Gayhouse

Elmgreen & Dragset's Gayhouse
Author: Elmgreen & Dragset
Publisher: Gayhouse
Language: -
Pages: 28
Size: 29,7 x 42 cm
Weight: 250 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: -
Price: €27.00
Product Description

GAYHOUSE is a graphic and visual journal, published every 3 months, who invites artists and designers to expose their personal, singular and affirmative view of the gay identity – either it may be merry, poetical, worried, ironic, humorous, pornographic, discreet…
Investing the journal is like inhabiting a house. The guest chooses the layout, the decoration, and the acquaintances. It will be, in the end, the image of his world.
Through its title, the journal proclaims its attachment to gay identity: a homosexual identity that asserts itself without shame, while questioning its relevance. It seizes this name, from now on recognizable by the majority, to spread strong and unique affirmations linked to art and identity.

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET’S GAYHOUSE
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset work as a duo since 1996. Their ‘Powerless Structure’ series of installations put them at a prime place on the international scene. They handle art, design and architecture through their sexual and social dimensions. In 2007, with Prada Marfa, they installed a Prada store along a road in the Texan desert. Invited to curate both the Nordic and the Danish pavilions during 53rd Biennale Art Fest in Venice in 2009, they confronted two models of pavilions, one evoking the stereotypes of a heterosexual traditional family, and the other refering to a way of life and artistical choices rooted into the political and sexual thoughts of a young gay collector. By taking grasp on the commonplaces of the hype, european, heterosexual and homosexual culture, by means of the recreation of private or public spaces, they product an art of situation bringing the spectator to measure the social and symbolic power of architecture, design and art. At the moment they’re presenting the ‘Celebrity – The One and the Many’ exhibit at the ZKM in Karlsruhe until March 27th. Their ‘Amigos’ exhibit, that will open at the Helga de Alvear gallery on January 20th, will turn the Madrilenian gallery into a gay sauna. A personal exhibit will also take place at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris, in May 2011.
As an answer to the invitation to make the second issue of Gayhouse review, Elmgreen & Dragset continued their Venetian proposition and conceived a gay vaudeville starring young and sexy sneakers men, such as can be found while reading Butt or some other contemporary ‘gayzine’, dealing with their couple issues.
This second review will be launched at Helga de Alvear gallery on Friday January 21st in Madrid.

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET’S GAYHOUSE

B&W offset printing
200 prints
Price: 25€