{"id":10685,"date":"2024-06-10T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:09:07","slug":"hugh-hayden-at-lisson-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/10\/hugh-hayden-at-lisson-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hayden, Hughmans at Lisson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hughhayden.com\">Hugh Hayden<\/a>\u2019s last show in 2021 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lissongallery.com\/exhibitions\/hugh-hayden-5166db31-91fb-4db9-80d6-b685612502d5\">Lisson Gallery<\/a> featured church pews installed like a chapel in the gallery; his current exhibition again transforms the space, this time into a restroom with artworks in multiple stalls, including a functioning urinal.\u00a0 Visitors open doors to find pieces that refer generally to human experience: education (a distorted school desk), diasporic culinary arts and music (cooking pans merged with West African masks) and sexuality (several male torsos make a connection between guns and phalluses.)\u00a0 Sequestered in their own stalls, each sculpture can be viewed alone or &#8211; though it feels strange, given the public restroom environment &#8211; with others.\u00a0 Engaging with the show is irresistible; curious visitors are rewarded with beautifully crafted, surreal sculptures that prompt us to explore specific cultural commonalities.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through June 15<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/d4c7c852-bea5-775b-9a3e-97d40f60dfac.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh Hayden, installation view of \u2018Hughmans\u2019 at Lisson Gallery, June 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hayden\u2019s last show in 2021 at Lisson Gallery featured church pews installed like a chapel in the gallery; his current exhibition again transforms the space, this time into a restroom with artworks in multiple stalls, including a functioning urinal.\u00a0 Visitors open doors to find pieces that refer generally to human experience: education (a distorted &hellip; 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