Pink Freud & The Pleasant Horizon, 2015-16

Exhibited 2015, Silas Von Morisse Gallery, New York, NY

2018 EXHIBITION

Pink Freud and the Pleasant Horizon stems from Andre von Morisse’s interest in the powerful influence of Freud, Darwin, and Christ on ideas about psychological, scientific and spiritual motors of human life and on popular culture since the 20th century. The exhibition at Silas von Morisse gallery focused on the impact of Sigmund Freud theories on contemporary society.

Von Morisse is particularly concerned with the moment when society ceased to treat shared responsibilities and values as fundaments of its organization, and became atomized by bringing needs of the individual to the fore. A pivotal figure in this transition was Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays (1891-1995). An American born in Vienna, he became the father of public relations. Bernays combined the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle with theories of crowd psychology to pioneer the PR industry's use of social sciences to design public persuasion campaigns. He developed techniques of manipulating public opinion while serving Woodrow Wilson during WWI and later worked for the biggest U.S. companies. He was the one responsible for the 1920s smoking campaign targeted at women.

6 ORIGINAL B&W PAINTINGS

Pink Freud and the Pleasant Horizon consists of 12 works: including 6 oil on canvas paintings that the artist first executed in black and white (oil on canvas, 26 x 26 in.) and then photographed.

Pink Freud & The Pleasant Horizon consists of 12 works including six photographs (silver gelatin prints on paper, mounted on aluminum, 45 x 45 in.) of 6 original paintings the artist first executed in black and white (oil on canvas, 26 x 26 in.) and then photographed.

6 SILVER GELATIN PRINTS

4 COLOR PAINTINGS

Pink Freud & The Pleasant Horizon consists of 12 works including 4 color paintings, Pink Freud 2 (2015), Pink Freud’s Dream (2015), Pink Froid and You don’t always get the memories you want (2013).

An earlier version of Pink Freud was featured on the cover of Gastronomica. The Journal of Food and Culture (UC Berkeley Press, Fall 2007).

and in The Food Show: The Hungry Eye at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York (2007) along works by Vik Muniz, Wayne Thiebaud, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, et al.