January 14 - March 4, 2012
In 2010, 24-year-old Fausto Cardenas fired six shots from a handgun into the air from the steps of the Texas State Capitol. Coincidentally, NY artist Jill Magid was present as a witness, and mines the coincidence for her performative exhibition, drawing connections between Fausto’s futile and tragic act and Goethe’s nineteenth-century epic poem, Faust. In conjunction with the show at Arthouse, Magid’s armored family car will be parked near the Texas Capitol, and she will publish something in the February issue of the Texas Observer.
Artist talk: January 14, 2012 | 2–3 pm
700 Congress Avenue
Austin, 78701 TX
(512) 453-5312
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