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BURN BABY BURN► ARTANDGALLERY | Via Arese 5, Milano | January 17th through February 15th, 2006
Jean Toche has been active since the seventies, when he founded the GAAG - Guerrilla Action Art Group - with Jon Hendricks and Poppy Johnson. In March 1974, the FBI has arrested him for posting some of his works that violently critiqued polices in American museums and as a consequence of the imprisonment, over three hundred artists subscribed a petition for his liberation. Jail was not the only problem he encountered: after putting bugs on the dining table during a social event organized at the Metropolitan Museum he has underwent psychiatric control, only to be found completely sane by the doctors. The works displayed in “Burn baby burn” offer a glimpse of the process in which the single-minded political motivations of the artist become a serial, compulsive communication with the external world. Jean Toche’s choice of using only images of himself as a visual vector for his incendiary critic addresses at the politics of contemporary America and the balance between repetition and slight variations on the theme make walking through this show a charming experience. — Text: Francesco Tenaglia
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