About this Event
Bring down the house and get the last laugh, this time for 2 Nights Only* as Gertie closes for the year with a curtain call featuring all the works from 82 Nights Only* and a final installation by Every house has a door & Max Guy, reimagining the canting facade from an icon of silent comedy: Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr.
December 18th and 19th for 2 Nights Only, the holiday special to close out our current exhibition, 82 Nights Only*. For 82 nights we showed these works one at a time, giving each its own stage to land its joke without a neighbor stepping on the punchline. Now, like any good holiday special, the whole cast is back for one big reunion. Every work installed over the course of the exhibition returns at once, filling the whole of the Gertie Hub. Works by Lee Lozano, Pope.L, Ken Kagami, and Cosima von Bonin, among others, will be dispersed through the building and regrouped into new conversations, with pieces that are literally jokes sitting alongside works driven by mechanical, carnal, and even miraculous humor.
Seeing these works together reveals, in hindsight, what isolation gave them: the timing, the deadpan, the space to breathe that a crowded group show tends to smother. Think of it as the punchline to our experiment. We bet these works were funnier on their own. Come see if we were right.
2 Nights Only: just like 82 Nights Only*, minus the 8 and double the fun. Don’t miss your final chance this season to shamelessly laugh with, or at, an artwork.
Event venue & nearby stays
Gertie, 400 N peoria, chicago, United States
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