Jonny Tanna - Hotel 419

Jonny Tanna - Hotel 419, The Muse at 269 Gallery | Studio

• LocationLondon
• Type
• Salary
• Artformfilm, photography, visual arts
• ContactThe Muse Gallery info@themuseat269.com

Description

The Muse Gallery and Untitled present

Jonny Tanna Hotel 419

Opening Night: 20.12.2016, 6.30-9.00pm
21.12.2016-08.01.2017

Hotel 419 is a collaborative exhibition that sees Tanna bring together recent graduate artists and a selection of established artists.

Tanna’s process centres around collaborative activity, assembling artists and friends to produce a unique result: the Hotel serves as a metaphor under whose roof diverse practices are brought together through the contributions of the guests invited to participate and occupy the space.

In pursuit of the idea that self-serving is inherently self-defeating and that art belongs to nobody but everybody, Tanna has deliberately undermined his own opportunity for a solo show and invited other artists to fill the space. In addition, familiar figures have been selected to act as brand names to elevate the profile of ‘Hotel 419’, employing cynical tactics in the service of generosity and collaboration.

These strategies mark the potential for this collaborative method to be perceived simultaneously as a way of passing the buck or ‘delegating responsibility’, and as a deliberate and positive effort to divert the energy of putting together a solo exhibition into the creation of new networks by sharing the platform.

In embracing both possibilities and accepting these deflective tactics, we are able to approach ideas of deception, façades and posturing as an implicit and important theme in the structure of the exhibition. Overlaying the separate content of the works on display is the notion of the sleight of hand needed to operate the fronts that we present to ourselves and others. ‘Hotel 419’ therefore exposes itself as a mechanism for coping with the vulnerability of exhibiting the self and re-purposes it as content and context.
The show focuses on the curational aspect of Tanna's work over the past 10 years, and will feature exclusive works as well as unseen collaborations. Residing in the hotel will be a mixture of new arrivals as well as familiar faces, all of whom compliment Tanna's practice.

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Jonny Tanna - Hotel 419