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03-16-10
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| A recent installation of Ida Applebroog's drawings everted the voyeuristic structure of Etant donnes by putting the naked ladies on the outside of the box; visitors were invited to peer inside the doorless "little sanctuary" -- a room of one's own -- at more of the art, which depicts Applebroog's own female anatomy in various degrees of abstraction. ...more |
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| A Glimpse into Montreal's New Dzama Show |
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posted:
03-15-10
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Even the Ghost of the Past (detail)
Marcel Dzama |
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| A significant retrospective look at the diorama-driven career of Marcel Dzama offers some of the thrills of the wax museum along with more enduring grist for thought. Dzama's one-time signature installation Even the Ghost of the Past updates Etant Donnes in ways that both expand and circle back on the Duchampian original. While Duchamp's work still appears eternally pregnant, the addition of new figures seems to both personalize the scene and fix it more clearly at a specific moment in time -- less "origin of the world," more the content of a certain dream. Still, provocative and poignant.
(At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal through April 25.) ...more |
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| Duchamp Still has the Power to Shock |
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By Scott Martin
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posted:
03-12-10
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Dee Schaad,
Marcel Duchamp & Bragna Pearlmutter [sic] as Adam & Eve
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| Nearly nine decades after Marcel Duchamp and Bronia Perlmutter posed nude as Adam and Eve, the image is still causing trouble. Readers of the Lubbock, TX Avalanche-Journal are debating whether an earthenware interpretation of Man Ray's original photograph is "offensive." Interestingly, the controversy does not revolve around the potentially radical suggestion that the quintessentially modern Duchamp could impersonate the fundamentally archaic progenitor of humanity -- a tempting proposition for would-be heretics -- but that he wasn't pretty enough. The offended reader argues that Adam must have a "perfect physique" to reflect the image of God; the sculpture's defender counters that in fact Adam is "whimsical and well-modeled." Nine decades and more on, the retinal clearly retains its primacy in the world of art. ...more |
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| Design: From Found to Foundry |
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posted:
03-11-10
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| A new London exhibition of Ron Arad's readymade-inspired designs segments his work into the "scavenged" or found, the "rolled" or fabricated, and "tinkered" objects in between. This continuum of approaches to raw materials demonstrates his wit and, as the title of the show underlines, the artist's fundamental restlessness. (At the Barbican through May 16.) ...more |
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| Duchamp and Mail Art: SMS |
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posted:
03-10-10
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| In the 1960s, artists affiliated with the Fluxus movement bypassed the gallery system by mailing each other portfolios as boxed "exhibitions." Collector William Copley set up SMS, one of the more famous of these exchanges, which brought together an assortment of surrealists and younger artists: Oppenheim, Ono, Cage ... Duchamp, who designed the covers and table of contents of one of the six "issues" in an echo of the "rotoreliefs" he'd created four decades previously. An entire set of SMS is now on display at the California State University-Long Beach Art Museum. (Through April 18. The CSULB Art Museum has details.) ...more |
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