![]() The closest I got was a series of Guston drawings from around 1960 that I like a lot, but I don't think that's it either. The tiny, meticulous strokes create a tension by suggesting spatial depth, like he intuitively follows the building up of forms into an unconscious illusionism, and I can almost see the other painting it makes me think of in my head. The one to the right of the entryway that's just behind you as you walk in reminds me so specifically of some other abstract artist, but I can't place it. After the turn of the century he seized the opportunity to do a straight AbEx revival, and these late works have a great, mature control of form, color, gesture, and indeed, scale. Those are forbiddingly chaotic, tending towards memories of the murky colors you get from mixing all your fingerpaints together, but I get it, that's when abstraction itself had a major anxiety of influence and direction, you couldn't just do Joan Mitchell anymore. I don't know how convinced I'd be if this was an exhibition at a smaller scale, or if it was only the '80s-'90s works. with planes of solid colors instead of a flat churning mass, and the later work that's lighter and more driven by gestural brushstrokes that ends up somewhere near a really good imitation of, say, Joan Mitchell). long painting is so outlandish that you can't even accuse it of big for the sake of bigness), the explosive color, the physical amount of paint and junk on the canvas, the range of styles (all pretty standard ab fare: mixed media 3D impasto slop in the '80s and '90s, one exception with some Guston-y cartoon shapes that isn't as fundamentally about paint as material and texture, i.e. The number of paintings, the size of the paintings (the 40 ft. Jesus fucking Christ, talk about maximalism! The scale, in every sense, is crucial here. Larry Poons - The Outerlands - Yares Art - **** Theodor Adorno - Aesthetic Theory - *****Īndrea Fraser: Collected Interviews 1990-2018 1Įmily Segal - Mercury Retrograde (The Question of Coolness) Gerhard Richter Marian Goodman & Lise Soskolne Svetlana, Park McArthur Essex Street, The Cleaners of Mars Reena Spaulings - Addendum: Notes on Psychedelic ArtĬoncerning Superfluities Essex Street vs. Isa Genzken Galerie Buchholz, Art Club2000 Artists Space, Jef Geys Essex Street In Search of the Worst Painting on the Lower East Side The Manhattan Art Christmas Movie Review Special: Notes on Eyes Wide Shut Paul McCarthy and the Negative Sublime, Paul McCarthy Hauser & Wirth The Aesthetics of the Refusal of Aesthetics, Sara Deraedt Essex Street (2016) The Rules of Appropriation Liz Magor, For Example, Liz Magor Andrew Kreps ![]() The Manhattan Art Review's Best & Worst Art Shows of 2021Ī Response to Eric Schmid's Press Release for Henry Fool Triest Why Does The Whitney Biennial Suck So Much? The Painter's New Tools Nahmad Contemporary, Manhattan Claude Balls Int The entire project is a tour de force (or tower de force?) of drawing that sensitively captures the mystical spirit of Borges's text.The Manhattan Art Review's Best & Worst Art Shows of 2022 Views of its tiered and arched interiors, swarming with seekers, include the noble "Room of the Planets", a grandiose chamber dominated by a surreal sphere the "Hexagonal Room", whose intricately constructed sides culminate in a hexagonal oculus, and a "Plunging View" that takes the eye a dizzying way down an infinitely tiered hexagonal shaft. The multilevel library exterior, a profusion of portals and buttresses, is an improbable meld of medieval cathedral and the Tower of Babel. ![]() Escher, the prints are wonderful to behold. Rendered in black and white, with cues from Piranesi and M.C. Inspired by Borges's description of the library as "an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries," the French printmaker Érik Desmazières has done a suite of 11 etchings and aquatints to illustrate an edition of the Borges book. ![]() In its labyrinthine depths, seekers wander endlessly, forever in search of the particular book that will explain the enigma of existence. In his novella "The Library of Babel", the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) conjures up a vast storehouse of the world's learning, an allegorical library to which everyone holds a card. Érik Desmazières: 'Borges's "Biblioteca de Babel" and Other Recent Work'Īrt in Review, The New York Times, Friday, December 18, 1998, by Grace Glueck. ![]()
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