DON NETZER: THE LETHAL BEAUTY OF VIOLENCE
2023-07-10Can the words, “Beauty” and “Violence” work together? Maybe when we look at a painting, for example, Pablo Picasso’s, Guernica, we can see beauty in Picasso’s depiction of the 1937 bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German and Italian bombers during the Spanish Civil War. Or maybe there is beauty in a Venus fly-trap plant, designed to kill in a subtle, menacing manner.
Don Netzer’s photographs depict sleek, streamlined cartridges, presented as portraits, the artist’s specialty. The magnified images of these projectiles elicit a response of danger and perhaps awe in the design. The cartridge contains the explosive charge and the bullet that, when loaded into a weapon, becomes the lethal component.
Opposite – Columbine High School, Columbine, Colorado, April 20, 1999, 9mm and 12 gauge shotgun cartridge, 13 killed, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2023
PDNB
150 Manufacturing St., Ste 203
Dallas
TX 75207
