Exhibition of new work by Fernando Bryce on view at Alexander and Bonin
(Artdaily.org)

Alexander and Bonin is presenting The Decade Review, an exhibition of new work by Fernando Bryce that chronicles the intellectual, political and cultural currents of the 1970s. Fernando Bryce’s drawings systematically re-examine the way historical events are represented in media and cultural production. Bryce describes his work as ‘mimetic analysis,’ which involves culling archives for advertisements, newspaper articles, propaganda pamphlets, comics, and other print materials relating to specific political developments. He then reproduces these original documents in ink on standard paper formats. By bringing the archive into the present, Bryce goes beyond a simple portrait of the past and makes us question the way that history is narrated. Installed across the main gallery is the eponymous work, an assemblage of 110 meticulously reproduced