January Artist in Residence: Kirk Maxson

On December 16, 2014 by admin

kmaxson_smLook for Kirk Maxson’s installation over the course of the month all throughout the store.

Bromance, or The Portable Voltaire room decorated in the Frederican Rococo style, is an installation of brass vines and flowers twisting around brass books and ephemera on the walls and ceilings of Adobe like the Voltaire room in Sanssouci palace in Potsdam Germany.  The piece explores the relationship between Voltaire and Fredrick the Great, the relationships between Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc.

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