detail: untiltled
Georganne Deen 1998

detail: O Circo
Fátima Menconça, 1998

detail: Christus Bei Gottwatter
Manuel Ocampo, 1995

Circos Globulos: Selected Works from the Babilonia Wilner Collection

February 24 – March 31, 2001

BABILONIA1808 presents selected works from the private collection in a show titled Circos Globulos. The exhibition begins February 24, 2001 with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. at 1808 Fifth Street in Berkeley, CA.

Artists' talk with Georganne Deen, Don Ed Hardy & Manuel Ocampo: Saturday, March 10, 2pm.

The show's title, Circos Globulos, derives from O Circo (The Circus), an installation by Portuguese artist Fatima Mendonca. The title, with its odd phonetic spelling and its playful distortion of a classical scholastic language, represents the character and attitude of the works in the show. "Circos Globulos" also refers to the origins of works from the collection (the artists come from many parts of the world including the Philippines, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, and France) as well as to the worldviews expressed by the works during this time of "globalization". In Mendonca's work, caged girl-clowns twirl painfully slow to a haunting musical round. Other artists chosen to represent the collection in this exhibition include Federico Uribe Botero, Georganne Deen, Don Ed Hardy, Manuel Ocampo, and Ray Smith.