Poets, Artists & Madmen
Best orgiastic feast: El Bicho: 2008/2009
Staff Pick
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Hammonds House Museum
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West End/Atlanta University
503 Peeples St. -
404-612-0500
- www.hammondshouse.org
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West End/Atlanta University
The Atlanta art scene might not be the most hospitable place for an Afro-Cuban political dissident who just wants to preach revolution while getting his freak on with an occasional break for Bible study. But that’s precisely the risk Hammonds House Museum took with Tomás Esson’s solo gambit EL BICHO: 2008/2009 earlier this year. And the payoff was sublime. Kevin Sipp’s tightrope curating mixed the right amounts of nasty and nice to spark the transcendence that the born-again Christian artist always points to. Esson’s exhilarating collection of paintings, drawings and installation works was not for the prudish. But then again, revolution seldom is. 503 Peeples St. 404-612-0500. www.hammondshouse.org.
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