Dangerous Boys Views
Currently on view at the Clocktower Gallery in New York is an exhibition by actor and aspiring visual artist James Franco. The showi’s title, The Dangerous Book Four Boys, is a spin-off of the name of a recently released how-to book for boys. Like the book, the exhibit revolves around the self-awareness and confusion that accompany adolescence.
Franco’s exhibit stretches from one end of the hallway to the other, spilling through three rooms and including sixteen titled works and a number of unnamed pieces. Texts torn from The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden have been manipulated by scratching and doodling, often featuring obscenities such as “Fuck Yes!,” which appears on a page dotted with skulls and stick figures.
In June of 2010, the Clocktower Gallery presented the groundbreaking exhibition The Dangerous Book Four Boys , a multi-disciplinary survey of work by James Franco that brings together a large selection of experimental films, photographs and drawings, and explors themes of childhood and nostalgia, games and destruction, and the American landscape. The Dangerous Book Four Boys received over 3,000 visitors at the Clocktower Gallery and was reviewed in the New York Times, Art In America, The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.
The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn and Hal Iggulden, is a guidebook published by HarperCollins, aimed at boys from eight to eighty. It covers around eighty topics, including how to build a treehouse, grow a crystal, or tell direction with a watch. Also included are famous quotes, stories, battles, and phrases that every boy should know. It was published in the UK on 5 June 2006, and reached number one in the UK non-fiction charts several times,[1] selling over half a million copies.[2]
Dangerous Boys Images
