Word: bronsonism
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...Bronson then taps into a graphically charged confrontation with death and life. His own nude image in a black casket-like box stands as a memorial to his past, and as a memorial to his own image as he moves into heartfelt works regarding the process of death. The sheer magnitude of “Felix, June 5, 1994” elevates the image of the dead Felix Partz to “a public icon standing for all the people who we have lost and as a tribute to the army of their caregivers,” according...
...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...
...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 in order that he could look ‘normal,’” as Zontal’s blindness in the later stages of disease prohibited his artistic input...
...Bronson believes that the illumination of the mirrors is really just the illumination of the spectators beholding themselves in these words and mirrors. Bronson calls all his audience to understand human suffering. Yet in some way Bronson exorcises the demon of suffering by attaching himself to his work, in a positive perversion of the mocking Nazi motto...
...Grief and trauma are buried in the ongoing onslaught of wasting and death, the continuous interweaving of care-taking, funerals, memorials, anniversaries, and more deaths,” Bronson states in the final room’s wall text. In this exhibition, Bronson creatively weaves though loss, identity and the specter of AIDS to present a work that successfully speaks in a quietly dramatic manner on the human condition. The work leaves a feeling not of sorrow, but of humble gratitude for the gifts of life, art and humanity...