Wanting To Get Free Exhibition at Gallery Daeppen

Gallery Guillaume Daeppen specialises in urban and modern art. The gallery is exhibiting a group show called "Wanting To Get Free" with works by Boris Hoppek, Dave The Chimp, Dunja Jankovic and Yummy Industries.

How much freedom do we really have as artists when our galleries get attacked for showing photos of naked men or caricatures of vegan culture, and artists get attacked online for making political work?

The question becomes "how free are we to do what we want as artists?" Do we have freedom to say what's on our minds, to engage the brains of others, to enter into discourse?

By using images that challenge people, we are opening a discussion. If we start concerning ourselves with the opinions of others we become their prisoner and we might as well quit being artists and get jobs as interior decorators or fashion designers.

More and more we feel freedom is a mind-set. We are limited in our ability to be free of societies' rules, or free of the capitalist system, or free from the physics of the universe, or from what our genes want us to do, but so long as we choose how we spend our time, and more importantly how we choose to feel about the things that happen, WE ARE FREE. Freedom from our own limiting opinions is the true freedom. Freedom is a choice we make in every second, and that power lies within us.

When: 24 June - 22 July 2017

Opening Hours:

Wednesday 17.00 - 20.00

Thursday 17.00 - 20.00

Friday 17.00 - 20.00

Saturday 12.00 - 17.00

Finissage: Sat 22 July from 16:00 to 18:00 - Dave The Chimp and Yummy Industries will be present

Where: Galerie Daeppen, Müllheimerstrasse 144, 4057 Basel