{"title":"PHANTASMATGORIA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.theholenyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/brinkman_feature.jpg\" \/\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hole is pleased to present Mat Brinkman’s \r\nfirst solo show in New York! There are not enough exclamation points in \r\nexistence to convey our excitement. The last time Mat showed a major \r\nwork in New York was when he was part of Forcefield in the Whitney \r\nBiennial in 2002. I was a Whitney intern back then and like everyone who\r\n saw it, had my mind completely blown by that installation. I have \r\nfollowed Mat’s books prints and zines since then, from the epic Teratoid\r\n Heights book to his latest neon silkscreen zine by Le Dernier Cri, and \r\ngot the chance to include him in a few group exhbitions like New York \r\nMinute at the MACRO in Rome and Mail Order Monsters, London at Max \r\nWigram and Athens at Andreas Melas Presents. His work was also recently \r\nincluded in Portugal Arte 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n  \u003cp\u003eBut now! Mat will be filling the gallery with black ink works on \r\npaper and blasting some rooms with colored light. Plus an advance \r\npreviewing of selected work by various artists from a yet to be released\r\n Necro~Demonic Dungeon~Crawl~Warfare Boardgame. What will this be like? \r\nWe don’t know. But pinch us because we just can’t believe we are finally\r\n getting to see some new art from this secret mega legend artist in our \r\nhome city.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWe will be releasing our first Hole book in conjunction with this \r\nshow: a coverless mystery book in which we see a monstrous face melting,\r\n ripping off, reconstituting, tumescing and exploding. This book may do \r\nsimilar things to you head as well!\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\r\n","products":[{"product_id":"the-banana-republican-recipe-book","title":"The Banana Republican Recipe Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hole Shop is proud to present, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Banana Republican Recipe Book. \u003c\/em\u003ePublished by Johannah Herr and Cara Marsh Sheffler. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEqual parts propaganda and home economics, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Banana Republican Recipe Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a dark riff on the United Fruit company’s recipe booklets of the mid-20th century. Now known as Chiquita Brands, United Fruits was anything but a cheery purveyor of tropical produce. Rather, the corporation worked hand-in-glove with the US Government and the CIA to facilitate regime change, crush labor organization, defeat environmental advocacy, grab indigenous land, and, above all, ensure that the banana stayed unreasonably cheap—and astronomically profitable—in supermarkets across the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Banana Republican Recipe Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a fresh take on the rotten underbelly of America’s favorite fruit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdditional info:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Banana Republican Recipes” is a corollary to our 2020 catalogue, “Domestic Terrorism: War Rugs From America.” “Domestic Terrorism” documented and expanded upon Johannah’s ongoing “War Rugs From America” series—rugs which use the material and visual narrative strategies of Afghan War Rugs to interrogate state-sanctioned violence in America. In that catalogue, we aimed to portray American decline as what it invariably is: a consumer experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“War Rug X (Banana Republics\/US Intervention in Latin America),” is another machine-tufted rug in this series. It is featured in the New Art Dealers Alliance on Governors Island this spring and summer (2021) with the support of Geary Gallery. Johannah’s installation, “Above the Fruited Plain (America! America!)” applies her war rug rhetoric to the violent legacy of American intervention—corporate and military—in Central America and the Caribbean. The rug is paired with a work on paper, “The Chemical Composition Of a Coup”; a subversive tropical wallpaper; and “Banana Republican Recipes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe lighted upon the medium of a recipe book to convey our curatorial content because United Fruit released them regularly from the 1940s to the 1970s. Light romps packed with nutritional information and cultural appropriation, they were part of a larger corporate propaganda campaign that enlisted doctors to tell patients to feed their children bananas and found its way into home economic classrooms across the country for decades. As Americans, we literally consumed that propaganda and, in the process, bought into a larger narrative about America as a good actor and benevolent, all-knowing protector during the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis narrative is as toxic as the numerous pesticides used to protect the Cavendish banana monoculture. The notion of monoculture itself is shortsighted, weak, and doomed to fail, taking down so many lives, ecosystems, and communities with it. While the book is meant to be enjoyable and provide a little levity in the absurdities of late-stage empire, it begs to ask what a banana could cost—versus what it should. We want to encourage the reader to question when something seems a little too cheap to be true, take a closer look, and a longer view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnjoy with someone you who would also enjoy :)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted in NY, NY \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e65 p. + one double-sided poster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17.78 x 12.7 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback Binding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDigital, laser printed color\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 100\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cara Marsh Sheffler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41104548954295,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0065\/2322\/products\/ScreenShot2022-02-26at1.05.33PM.png?v=1645901076"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.theholenyc.com\/collections\/phantasmatgoria\/comics-graphic-novels.oembed","provider":"The Hole NYC LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}