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...Bronson??s odyssey as a visual artist is central to the exhibit. Along with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, Bronson founded the Canadian conceptual art group General Idea. The collaborative was more than just the exploration of media bombardment in the modern age, an omnipresent theme in their work. Rather, all three members doffed their former identities and names to form an all-encompassing way of art and life that lasted from 1969 until 1994. In 1994, General Idea dissolved when Zontal and Partz, so integral to Bronson??s artistic and personal life, died from AIDS...
From the spiritual center of the Tibetan mirror, he moves into the physical representation of self with mirrors. Bronson??s series of earlier pre-General Idea photographs, “Body Binding” and “Mirror Sequences,” are powerful statements of the body’s indefinable role in the initial representation of self. The images present an insect-like segmentation of the body, to the point of almost being indistinguishable...
...Bronson??s work relies on perspective abnormalities that seem to openly assault the conventions of perception. This theme is continued in his most recent photographs, “Hotel Series.” Bronson??s nude photographs of himself in the transient context of a hotel indicate his struggle as he asserts himself in the face of tragedy, despite the continued haunting of time past...
Bronson continues the juxtaposition of life and death with the equally large “Anna and Mark, February 3, 2001,” picturing Bronson??s partner and their newborn daughter. Bronson, in an eloquent delineation of purpose, states that “each of us is dying and each of us is being born, each of us is bearing anew, and each of us is a fragment carried along in this river of love we call life...
...movement to an earthy sepia red walled room brings with it the organic distillment of the constant connection between Bronson??s own life and the greater significance of the global AIDS crisis. Three life-size portraits of General Idea’s Jorge Zontal, weeks before his own death, rest against the wall. Zontal’s father was an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, and Zontal believed that his gaunt, diseased ravaged body must have resembled his father’s own broken visage on liberation day. Bronson “had to act as his mirror...