Fear Eats the Soul Favorite 

If the way to one’s heart really is through the stomach, Rirkrit Tiravanija must have more than his share of admirers. Now at GAVIN BROWN, the Buenos Aires-born artist with a history of dishing out tasty edibles in his exhibitions invites viewers to enjoy a bowl of soup in his interactive show, Fear Eats the Soul.

Taking its title from the Fassbinder film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (AVAILABLE HERE), the show is broken into four areas. The first is a large deconstructed area adorned with dirt piles, industrial frames, and walls covered in floor-to-ceiling painted words from the show's title. Second is a room housing chrome-glazed ceramic casts of objects last seen in Tiravanija's 1994 show with ANDY WARHOL. Following that is a makeshift T-shirt shop, where viewers can have one of two dozen cryptic phrases silkscreened onto custom-made shirts. Finally, in the kitchen, guests are treated to a bowl of freshly made soup--and if you're lucky, the artist himself serves it up. Nothing to fear here except a satisfied belly.

Fear Eats the Soul runs through April 16, 2011. The SOUP KITCHEN and the T-SHIRT SHOP are open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10am to 6pm.

GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE
620 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10014
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