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...loose paraphrase of Shakespeare, the actor’s role is to mirror humanity, revealing what is intrinsically genuine and affirming in life. AA Bronson thoughtfully and movingly takes up the Shakespearean mantle as a visual artist. He explores the questions of human suffering and identity in the context of the global AIDS pandemic in his exhibit “Mirror Mirror” at MIT’s List Visual Art Center...
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...
...Bronson took a five year absence from the art world, as he reclaimed his identity and artistic voice. The show at MIT, his first solo exhibition in New England, presents his current work, pieces from the collaborative and earlier solo work. All are centered on the larger themes of the formation of personal identity within the cyclic processes of life and death...
...exhibit opens, Bronson embraces the idea of the mirror as representing distorted reality. Through the simple display of a ceremonial Tibetan mirror, Bronson has begun to allow himself “to see into the smoky realm of its possibilities.” The simplicity of the mirror provides for an appropriate austerity and confusion befitting the larger question of identity...
With a plot this outlandish, Loomis could quickly grow exasperating and tiresome. Yet writer-directors Daniel Chun ’02 and Jeremy Bronson ’02 have succeeded in infusing the script with enough charming absurdity that it remains fresh even as it veers towards utter inanity. Though a few of the gags eventually get stale, the comically expert cast keeps things suitably buoyant as the show nears its conclusion. Particularly hilarious are Thomas Odell ’04 as Whale (and in a smaller role as Mr. Pemberton), Brendan Demay ’02 as the title...