ARTBEEF / BEEFHAUS: " Before and after"

" Before and after"

Francis Giampietro

" Before and after"

march 8 - 18th

reception march 15th 6-10pm

beefhaus

Francis Giampietro

Before and after

"Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between

the present and the past.” -Don DeLillo White Noise

Couldn’t it be that things thrown into the mixing pot of cultural exchange inevitably

dilutes things beyond recognition? We want to change the world but ultimately that

voice is just a rock in a river slowly being worn down and reshaped.

All the work comes out of misgivings with things like: American football fandom,

conceptions of work ethic, the cultural value of labor, saints, pigs, popes, the ongoing

trial of a housewife turned alleged terrorist, and hobby kits. Many of these things will get

absorbed into the cultural mythology of the future. I want to play with what details might

survive a game of historical telephone.

ART BEEF is a collective of artists based in Dallas, Texas interested in challenging notions of authorship and market structure, while questioning the forms of programming most often associated with other artist-run spaces, galleries, organizations, and institutions.
While individual artists ourselves, Art Beef is not intended to serve a platform for our own respective practices. This collaborative project is, therefore, a problematizing exploration of artists as curator without the constraints of either a commercial or not-for-profit art space, examining the status and function of art, particularly within the city of Dallas.

BEEFHAUS is Art Beef's first long-term project space located at 833 Exposition Ave in Dallas, Texas. The space hosts a wide-range of exhibitions, performances, screenings, site-specific installation, panel discussions, artist talks, and more. The space is intended as a vehicle for collaboration with other artists, art groups, and performers across a variety of disciplines. Proposals are welcome. All profits from the sale of works go entirely to the respective artist(s); Beefhaus encourages a donation to help offset the costs of maintaining the space.