Touch
September 17 – October 5, 1996
Exhibition
About the Program
The pieces in Johannes Zits' Touch explore representations of the male rude, touch, and queer desire within the context of painting. He presents images of bar interiors and gay couples on a scale and in the style of Abstract Expressionism. The result is a kind of warring of two disparate languages: the extreme America machismo of Abstract Expressionism with its almost hyperbolic expression of a private subjective state and the contemporary representations of the more politicized private spaces of gay bars. Zits' work poses questions pertaining to the language of painting, laden with a modernist history, and the language of contemporary media culture with its emphasis on issues of identity and social space, and sets up a tension between the two.Artist
Johannes ZitsIdentifier
1996.0917 TOUCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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