The concept for Believe Inn’s current show is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off-as-fetish-object, with three artists contributing drawings inspired by the film. Porous Walker’s pornographic cartoons cover most of the walls and ceiling, featuring men and women with oversized breasts and genitals, and often retail store name tags, handing each other lattés and commenting on one another’s bodies. These are described as “deleted scenes” and delight in their own vulgarity more than most adult audiences could. Timothy Pigott’s drawings of “characters not in the movie” comprise portraits, mostly of sad, middle-aged men looking, for example, for the Ferrari stolen in the movie. Finally, Gabe Levinson’s sketches of “dudes thinking about dudes,” as was described to me, are precisely that, and fairly boring doodles to boot. At the opening, “Ferris Bueller” was playing in the adjoining room as a performance element—far more provocative, unfortunately, than the art it inspired. (Monica Westin)
Through June 21 at Believe Inn, 2043 N. Winchester
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The concept for Believe Inn’s current show is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off-as-fetish-object, with three artists contributing drawings inspired by the film. Porous Walker’s pornographic cartoons cover most of the walls and ceiling, featuring men and women with oversized breasts and genitals, and often retail store name tags, handing each other lattés and commenting on one another’s bodies. These are described as “deleted scenes” and delight in their own vulgarity more than most adult audiences could. Timothy Pigott’s drawings of “characters not in the movie” comprise portraits, mostly of sad, middle-aged men looking, for example, for the Ferrari stolen in the movie. Finally, Gabe Levinson’s sketches of “dudes thinking about dudes,” as was described to me, are precisely that, and fairly boring doodles to boot. At the opening, “Ferris Bueller” was playing in the adjoining room as a performance element—far more provocative, unfortunately, than the art it inspired. (Monica Westin)
