Current exhibition
Who’s there.
Bill Pechet: paintings, video, correspondence log
Bothkinds Project Space
1 E Cordova Vancouver, BC
October 28-November 28th
Opening October 28th, 6-9pm
This installation of Pechet’s army of 500 bunny-men lives at the visual intersection between comic, uncanny, and meditative. Their rhythm encompasses the viewer by spreading from wall to wall, but their conceptual reach extends far beyond floor to ceiling. These simple cartoonish paintings provoke questions of authorship, globalization, consumerism, exploitation, and other underpinnings of a 21stcentury capitalist culture.
Although these multiples were initiated in 2013, this is their first installation in their entirety. Bill reflects;
Why would the fact that it was an artwork distinguish it from my everyday participation in similar consumer activities? Are the ethics of this act nothing more than a reflection of the structure of capitalism? Or is art somehow to be judged by a different set of standa
Who’s there.
Bill Pechet: paintings, video, correspondence log
Bothkinds Project Space
1 E Cordova Vancouver, BC
October 28-November 28th
Opening October 28th, 6-9pm
This installation of Pechet’s army of 500 bunny-men lives at the visual intersection between comic, uncanny, and meditative. Their rhythm encompasses the viewer by spreading from wall to wall, but their conceptual reach extends far beyond floor to ceiling. These simple cartoonish paintings provoke questions of authorship, globalization, consumerism, exploitation, and other underpinnings of a 21stcentury capitalist culture.
Although these multiples were initiated in 2013, this is their first installation in their entirety. Bill reflects;
Why would the fact that it was an artwork distinguish it from my everyday participation in similar consumer activities? Are the ethics of this act nothing more than a reflection of the structure of capitalism? Or is art somehow to be judged by a different set of standa