Photography
Dennis Marsico, "Fantasy Suite/Age-Specific," 2012
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Item Description
Dennis Marsico (American, b. 1948)
Fantasy Suite/Age-Specific, 2012
Archival pigment print
36 x 44 inches
Artist proof
In his newest portfolio, Dennis Marsico explores the age-sensitive issues of the first wave of baby boomers, some of which are real and some which are imagined as events staged for the camera.
In the artist statement accompanying the limited edition book of the same title (now in final stages of production), Marsico writes this about the "provocative generation" who came of age during the second half of 1960s.
"For most of their adult lives they wore a badge of honor for just being who they were, when they were. Never content to be images of the generation ahead of them, they predominated over a culture of youth.
But now the ranks of the “never trust anyone over 30” are looking over their 60 year-old shoulders into an ever accelerating hallucination. Many see themselves as youthful, while others feel the ravages of a weakened body and spirit. Communally they clutch their iphones with the same zeal as their VW steering-wheels 40 years past, and gaze down a new uncertain highway."
About The Artist
A conceptual artist, editorial photographer, photojournalist and book artist, Dennis Marsico’s installation Passion and Politics was seen at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. A second installation Face Value was exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2009.
Marsico’s artist books have been collected by the Whitney Museum of Art; The Getty Research Institute; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, and Stanford University.
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