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Zach Feuer Gallery Presents Group Exhibition “Spontaneous Generation”

NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery presents Spontaneous Generation, a group exhibition curated by Meredith Darrow featuring work by Lynda Benglis, Sarah Braman, Alistair Frost, Fergus Feehily, Zak Prekop, Ken Price and Kevin Zucker. In Jorge Luis Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” the title character attempts to write Miguel de Cervantes’ masterwork himself. Unwilling to settle for rewriting, much less paraphrasing or copying it, Menard makes effort after effort to conceive each phrase himself, striving for the intellectual and emotional experience of actually writing Don Quixote. The subject of the book Menard is trying to write and the absurdity of his quest are mirror images of one another, and while his project (like Quixote’s) may be doomed to failure from the outset, it offers him purpose, and us insight, into the pathos and humor found in our own creative