Artists: Nairy Baghramian, Judith Bernstein, Sascha Braunig, Jana Euler, Isa Genzken, Judith Hopf, Dorota Juraczak, Nicola L., Louise Lawler, Eustace Tilley, Rosemarie Trockel, Amelie von Wulffen

Venue: établissement d’en face, Brussels

Exhibition Title: A Top-Hat, a Monocole, and a Butterfly

Curated by: Anthony Huberman

Date: June 8 – July 21, 2013

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Images:

Images courtesy of établissement d’en face, Brussels

Press Release:

Eustace Tilley, wearing a top-hat, holds up a monocle to look at a butterfly. He seems only marginally interested, as if he were maintaining a necessary critical distance.

Eustace Tilley was born in 1925, but since he doesn’t exist, he wasn’t born in 1925. He was created to represent The New Yorker magazine’s image of au courant sophistication, but looks like a flat pompous idiot from another century. Over the years, hundreds of people have drawn his portrait, and he hasn’t looked the same twice. By having too many faces, he has become faceless.

This is an exhibition that’s not about portraiture. It’s a show of withdrawn or missing faces—faces that appear where they shouldn’t, and don’t where they should. A top-hat, a monocle, and a butterfly describes everything about Eustace Tilley except his face.

Link: “A Top-Hat, a Monocole, and a Butterfly” at établissement d’en face

Tags: établissement d'en face, Amelie von Wulffen, Anthony Huberman, Belgium, Brussels, Dorota Juraczak, Europe, Eustace Tilley, Group Show, Isa Genzken, Jana Euler, Judith Bernstein, Judith Hopf, Louise Lawler, Nairy Baghramian, Nicola L, Rosemarie Trockel, Sascha Braunig

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