WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN

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Gallery Twenty-One WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN February 1-26, 2012 PRIVATE VIEW, February 2nd, 6-9pm FIRST THURSDAY February 2, 6-9pm VASILIS ASIMAKOPOLOUS | AARON HOLZ | JOHN NIELSEN | ANJA RONACHER Appropriating its title from playwright Henrik Ibsen's final play, dating 1899 which debuted at London's Haymarket Theater, When We Dead Awaken is an exhibition that presents themes of art imitating life, and life imitating art. Combined with consciously melodramatic themes of adoration, petrification, and the plight of the artist, the exhibition comments on the myth of the artistic genius and the role of art as consciously