DON’T LOOK AT ME

Shooting Gallery is pleased to present DON’T LOOK AT ME, from German artistic duo Herakut. In addition to works on canvas, the artists will transform a portion of the gallery with a large-scale installation which includes suspending a 6×10 ft. canvas, one of their largest to date, from the ceiling and transforming the space into a child-like dreamworld. The opening reception will be Saturday, November 09, from 7-11 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through December 07, 2013.

– “If Herakut was one actually living creature it would probably look a lot like a pug. (Those dogs are just as far detached from their wolf-granddaddies as, luckily, mid-thirty Germans today vary from their crazy ancestors from a hundred years ago.) And that pug-creature called Herakut would carry a permanent smile, because it had a contortionist-brain that could easily flip anything around to find its good spot.

So, Herakut would be walking the earth, knowing everything about being judged by appearance, and it would still be proud and keep on leaving its mark wherever it went.

And it would always have love and much appreciation for any other being that did not surrender to life´s obstacles. It admired those who combines awkwardness and dignity as if they were peanut-butter and jam. Herakut honored every hero who was not ashamed of its weakness, and it was the most loyal friend to the weaklings who would not give up to find their one strength.”

Hera (thinking about Herakut while listening to Morrisey´s “If you don´t like me, then don´t look at me”), Heidelberg 2013