Hippopotamus

Hippopotamus
An Exhibition of Works by the MFA Candidates in the UCSD Visual Arts Department
Running in conjunction with Open Studios 2010

Visual Arts Facility Gallery
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093

Exhibition Dates: April 6 - April 10, 2010
Hours: Noon - 4:30 pm

Herbert Marcuse had 20-30 different figurines of hippopotamuses - a bizarre animal that embodies the reality of the absurd and the immense possibility of the imagination. Conceptually, it is the conduit between land and water. It reaps in one area and spreads itself across another. A facile metaphor for UCSD’s mission, which is to “promote and facilitate the transfer of UCSD innovations” where the capitalistic machine gleans knowledge from one area and spreads it across the global market place.

Attached is the complete curatorial statement for Hippopotamus.