Leo Fitzpatrick. Fuck Friends

by BRIAN DEGRAW

by NECK FACE

by DAN COLEN

by AGATHE SNOW

by LEO FITZPATRICK

by RITA ACKERMANN
all images from the book “Leo Fitzpatrick. FUCK FRIENDS”. 2009

“Fuck Friends” was an exhibition at Asia Song Society in New York two years ago. I didn’t see the show and I didn’t experiment the gallery – owned by TERENCE KOH – during my stay because it was closed. But I managed to grab the exhibition book.

The exhibition consisted primarily of collaborations—collages, drawings, and paintings that LEO FITZPATRICK made with his friends, many of whom are well-known artists. But included also a wide sampling of LEO’s solo practice (works on paper, paintings, and video). LEO FITZPATRICK is primarily an actor – he was Telly in LARRY CLARK’s 1995 film KIDS, but he also belongs to an exclusive class of people who definitely do something—you just don’t really know what it is.

All of this, the vast array of images, texts and collaborations, is like watching television: In fact, if TV has one cohesive message, it is that everything is watchable. One image is followed randomly by another, the sequence held together only by the flimsiest narrative. It is no imaginative leap, then, to propose that viewing his work is a lot like watching TV. After all, the random juxtapositions of the artist’s drawings and catch-phrases (most of which are culled from the screen) can be found just as easily amid basic cable’s Thursday night line-up. – by JARED KILLEEN for Dossier Journal

Asia Song Society is inconspicuously located on the outskirts of Chinatown in a repurposed storefront with nothing but an awning bearing the title “Kunst”. Stay tuned for the reopening planned for Spring 2011!



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