Revolutionary socialism lives on the gallery walls in Fred Lonidier’s full-frontal attack-installation denouncing capitalist globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement that is composed of photographs, graphics and copious text in Spanish and English taken from articles on “Imperialist Corporations” that appeared in the old-left Monthly Review. Maybe, as it becomes excruciatingly obvious that capitalism is the last thing from a panacea, a jolt of intellectualized rage decorated with inspiring images of the Mexican wretched of the earth rising in protest against their abysmal working conditions is just what we need. In any case, Lonidier proves that no ideology ever dies and that even a way of thinking and seeing in which plodding and tendentious theory cohabits with passionate uplift can still find adherents in a cool and fragmentary electronic mediascape. (Michael Weinstein)
Through January 31 at ARC Gallery, 832 W. Superior St. #204
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