EXHIBITION DATES
SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2009 – SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009, 8:00PM – 10:00PM

EXHIBITION DATES
SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2009 – SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009, 8:00PM – 10:00PM

This text by MARK CLINTBERG is published alonside KENNETH DOREN‘S Rule Britannia: A Low Opera in Grand Shite Style exhibition.
KENNETH DOREN‘s Rule Britannia launches an assault, from the first moment. That is, after a pensive and slightly sentimental overture. Virtuoso pianists sit back to back on one bench with stoic focus, their posture and performance giving no hint of their bold vocalist’s immanent arrival, and the string of expletives she is about to spew forth from two television screens. After a Union Jack flashes on the screens like a …

They have divided the gallery into four shops and handed the reigns over to a selected number of artists who are pumped to hustle, sell, consult and charm as entrepreneurs and salespeople, cheerful retail renegades of their own brand – before they are artists.

They step down from being the untouchable ArtStars too snotty to give us their time or handshake. Here, they are not rare and precious rubies, or the quixotic, straggly starlets shining in the glossy pages of Artforum. They get real, for once.