Detroit Affinities: Greg Fadell

The Detroit-based artist Greg Fadell inaugurates the second pairing in the Detroit Affinities series of solo exhibitions as part of MOCAD’s DETROIT CITY program. "History Repeats Itself revolves around the artist's fascination with art history, from ancient to contemporary, and the question of how to engage with and measure aesthetic and cultural value in order to determine what it means to be an artist in the twenty-first century. Art history is Fadell's starting point for the process of appropriation and deconstruction with which he questions aesthetic precedents, the assumed value of objects, and institutional hierarchies by examining how history and value is mediated and represented via mundane TV shows, ordinary museum posters, and scholarly publications." For more info, including an essay on Greg Fadell written by curator Jens Hoffmann, please vist http://mocadetroit.org/detroitcity/affinities.html