Jon Rafman | Musique Pour Le Chevalier Aux Fleurs | Radio Montez Press

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Jon Rafman

Musique Pour le Chevalier Aux Fleurs
02/25/24
46 Canal Street, New York
 
Presented on the occasion of a two-person exhibition with Parker Ito titled "Poets, Gamblers, Fools" at Lubov NYC. On the flyer announcing this exhibition, there is an image of a painter getting whacked with a club by a skeleton. Death takes the painter but leaves the painting. The original image contained the words “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis.” It is a Latin saying adapted from Ancient Greek, which in earlier iterations read something like this:

Life is short, and art long, opportunity fleeting, experimentations perilous, and judgment difficult

Aired on Montez Press Radio as part of the archival series "The Slaughter Bench of History", a collection of distinctly American forms of auditory narrative which reflect upon the justification of suffering in the name of mythological ideas of nationhood and progress. The series takes into consideration Hegel's famous provocation, “But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered."

 


Listen to the recording here.

February 25, 2024
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