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This image is from Todd Keyser's opening at the Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art opening. Here are the details:

Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is proud to present The Truth About Maximilian, an exhibition of new paintings, collages and installation by Todd Keyser. In this exhibition, visions of science fiction fantasies and borrowed architectural forms meld together forming a disjointed layer of modernist constructs mirroring the present philosophical chaos of our contemporary lifestyle. In the light of our experiences today, these models of utopian ideals and the boundless assumptions concerning the progress of humanity appear foolish and shortsighted.

Todd Keyser’s image making is a process stemming from appropriation and reconfiguration. The images appearing in The Truth About Maximilian are found and then reprocessed into environments where the nostalgic idioms of their origins collide with contemporary realities. Playful rather than foreboding, the images allude to the camp and naiveté of science fiction films and high modernist architectural structures. Keyser’s aim is to re-evaluate the precepts that governed the creation of 20th century monuments and media within the experience of the contemporary condition. As an academically trained painter, Keyser’s examination of modernists philosophies conjoined with science fiction pop absurdities is more a symphonic intellectual musing than a visual rock and roll diatribe.

The Truth About Maximilian opens on Thursday, March 13, 2008 with an opening reception from 6-9 pm. The exhibition features the work of Philadelphia artist Todd Keyser and includes painting, collage and installation. The show closes on Saturday, April 19, 2008.