Curated by Richard Flood
A recent commercial for the video game Guitar Hero III has Slash flaying his way out of the body of one player to conquer the other, as if masculine so-called heroics, rock ’n’ roll or otherwise, required some kind of intense metabolizing. I doubt that either Mexican artist Daniel Guzmán or Canadian artist Steven Shearer will step out of the other’s skin for this sprawling dual show, but it would be really interesting if one of them did. Both artists haunt and are haunted by their adolescent selves from the 1970s, when, if their devotional, Tiger Beat–style installations are any indication, they were spending a lot of time in their rooms with headphones on, or jamming in the garage. Comprising roughly fifty-eight works from the past thirteen years and accompanied by a catalogue with essays on and conversations with both artists (but oddly none between the two), the show, let’s hope, will live up to its head-banging potential.
