UNITED KINGDOM - LONDON, Vegas Gallery August 21 to September 14, 2008

Swiss/French artist Pascal Rousson presents work which elaborates upon Museum of the Dispossessed, an installation previously exhibited at Vegas Gallery as part of the Loose Booty exhibition. Rou - sson's work ironically debunks the ideologies and values embedded in Modernist art. His current installation sca - venges elements and the mes from his own work, including flea market and charity shop paintings reworked with satirical references to canonical We - stern artists, an interest in the metaphorical potential of American pulp and amateur D.I.Y. craft-making manuals, and a preoccupation with the co nstricting myth of The Great Artist as Rock Star, destined to burn out and leave a trail of beautiful, historyaltering cor pses. Museum of the Disp ossessed incorporated paintings, which appropriated covers of the late 1960s D.I.Y. magazine Practical Hous eholder. The paintings presented comical narratives that cast Am erican modernist artists as self-obsessed bricoleurs with nameless and compliant fem ale sidekicks, whose great works echo by the "low" aesthetics of amateur home improvement projects.