2025/11/14

Gretchen Bender Remixes 1989’s Biggest Blockbusters

Sprüth Magers Berlin revisits Gretchen Bender’s Top Ten Grossing Films of 1988 (1989) in “Political Entertainment,” showing for the first time since their debut. Ten backlit sculptures rendered in crumpled black vinyl and neon bear the titles of that year’s highest-grossing films—Coming to America, Crocodile Dundee II, Die Hard, etc. Compiled through the late American artist’s monitoring of trade publications, the forms probe the Hollywood blockbuster as what Bender called “a fascism of and through entertainment.”

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