Corporate at David Zwirner, New York

06-Nov-2010 - 21-Dec-2010
The works in the exhibition, Corporate, examine the phenomenon of the corporation. Influenced, in part, by the work of American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, which looks at the roots of modern-day corporate culture, the exhibition continues Tuymans’s interest in power structures and collective history.1 Rushkoff observes how the purpose of corporatism from the onset was to suppress lateral interactions between people or small companies, instead redirecting any created revenue to a select group of investors. Yet most people, even corporate leaders, have little awareness of these underlying motivations or how automatically they are compelled by them.
They identify with corporations and ultimately surrender their free agency in the process.

More information on the site of David Zwirner Gallery.

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