Between Reason and Imagination
Marc Straus Gallery•Jan 23, 2025 — Mar 01, 2025
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For as long as civilization has existed, two powerful forces have been at odds: reason and emotion. On one side were those who saw reason and logic as the keys to unlocking truth and understanding the world. On the other side were those who argued that emotion, with its raw intensity and depth, was the gateway to deeper truths about human experience. In essence, it is a struggle over which force should guide human thought, mind, and spirit.
For this exhibition, Between Reason and Imagination, we chose art that contained this tension, that contained a dialogue with the ideas that were born and forged around these two camps. We were compelled to find not only the emotion and imagination that abound freely in art, but also works that engage, converse with, or subvert reason. And in keeping with the ethos and nature of the gallery and its founder, this exhibition includes an amalgamation of artists from different cultures who offer us different views of utopia and...More
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Between Reason and Imagination
Marc Straus Gallery•Jan 23, 2025 — Mar 01, 2025
Press Release
For as long as civilization has existed, two powerful forces have been at odds: reason and emotion. On one side were those who saw reason and logic as the keys to unlocking truth and understanding the world. On the other side were those who argued that emotion, with its raw intensity and depth, was the gateway to deeper truths about human experience. In essence, it is a struggle over which force should guide human thought, mind, and spirit.
For this exhibition, Between Reason and Imagination, we chose art that contained this tension, that contained a dialogue with the ideas that were born and forged around these two camps. We were compelled to find not only the emotion and imagination that abound freely in art, but also works that engage, converse with, or subvert reason. And in keeping with the ethos and nature of the gallery and its founder, this exhibition includes an amalgamation of artists from different cultures who offer us different views of utopia and...More
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