Stroboskop is pleased to present Trouble at Home, a series of new works by Bean Gilsdorf. This will be the American artist’s first solo exhibition in Warsaw. Using pictures found in comic books and mass-market history books, Gilsdorf creates textile sculptures and wall hangings that investigate political and cultural icons, and the historical image as subject.
For Trouble at Home, Gilsdorf draws sardonic connections between symbolic models of male authority and the individuals that have become repositories for them—in this case, Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley, and Superman. The images of these …