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Momenta Art is pleased to present “The Bad Air Smelled of Roses,” the first solo exhibition in New York by Carl Pope. Collecting disparate texts and presenting them as 82 aesthetically seductive letterpress posters, Pope evokes a larger social history with a visceral connection to the past. The texts range from humorous to confrontational, unconventional to recognizable, exploring psychological and emotional states of forgetfulness, insanity, and alienation associated with the poetics of Blackness. That Black people (by choice or by force) represent and/or embody Blackness is the focus of “The Bad Air.” A constellation of these posters will punctuate the gallery walls the way stars in the sky articulate the sublime expanse of outer space. The isolated phrases upset the ways in which viewers read and construct context, but more than that, these texts and the conceptual distance between them articulate the infinite possibilities of Blackness for discovery and insight. Carl Pope received an MFA from
Indiana University in 1999 and a BA from Southern Illinois University
in Cinema and Photography in 1984. He attended the Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine in 1997. His work was
included in Afro-Futurism at the Soap Factory
in Minneapolis, MN in 2005, The Whitney Biennial in 2000, Enough
About Me at Momenta Art in 2002, and Black Male: Representations
of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, in 1994. He received a Louis Tiffany Foundation
Award in 2005. |
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