Royal Art Lodge
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Curator Statement
The Canadian collaborative Royal Art Lodge has had a few different members on its roster, but is the brain child of Marcel Dzama, Drew Langois, Neil Farber, Michael Dumontier, and Hollie Dzama. For the past five years, meeting on a regular basis, the four, and sometimes others, begin drawing almost in the spirit of the Surrealist tradition of Exquisite Corpse—where a drawing was begun and added to, in a tag team like manner, creating a collaborative manifestation of, quite often, a human form-head, middle, and legs drawn by different artists. With the Royal Art Lodge, rather than just complying with an individual drawing, they might work on a series, with a range of subjects, characters, outcomes, and styles. Somehow almost like the game of Clue, the viewer finds some solace in the range exhibited and the associations derived. The results are telling, but sarcastic, truthful and derivative, naive yet sardonic, both in the execution and the subject matter. In all, not unlike learning the true reality of the Easter Bunny, Great Pumpkin, Santa, or even a tax cut.
