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(4) built up on freestanding brick walls supported
Nicolas GuaGNiNi 77 Testicular Imprints, by distressed wood beams, exhibit a cloying
andrew Roth nostalgia for homelife and family, the kind
one expects to find in little regional museums
Yes, that’s correct, ‘testicular imprints’, of cultural heritage where sincerity is
and no, it is not sexy. in a riff on Yves betrayed by the gift shops that flank the exit
Klein’s Anthropométries, Guagnini applied doors.
paint to his scrotum and then left an imprint
of his ample, apparently hairy equipment on 77
printed items. These include: a block of stamps
picturing the young stalin; a letter from then-
us senator Jacob Javits concerning the Watergate
investigation; a poster touting the Guggenheim’s
many branches; Hitler’s letterhead; and sundry
MoMa catalogues from group shows held during
the 1950s and 60s.
This ephemera, like much old bumf, has interest
as a time capsule, but why Guagnini has defaced
it, at risk of considerable personal discomfort,
is hard to figure. one assumes that as he left
his mark, his other endowment was in his hand.
His work reeks of the kind of personal indulgence
best undertaken in private, although watching
that might have been more interesting than
this show.
(5)
PHiliP GusToN / JasPeR JoHNs, leo castelli
and Brooke alexander editions
This two-gallery show attempts to tease out
affinities between Jasper Johns and Philip in other words, this is high kitsch. Gone is
Guston by opposing decades’ worth of work in the parodic humour that closes out The Weeper,
which the studios and the artists’ hands and where Paci stages a scene of mourning over his
brushes stand as allegories for personal own death. as he lies on a table in a small
creative exploration. Despite the iconographic interior, the hired albanian ‘weeper’ of the
overlap, which also includes lightbulbs, title sings the prayer of his passing, after
watches and eyes, it seems that as Guston which the vaudeville music kicks in, and Paci
worked, he became monumental in his eccentricity, rises, hugs the help and heads out the door.
whereas Johns was silly in his seriousness. in other words, we’ve been duped. This scene
of cultural difference in all of its apparent
The strokes in the former’s drawings work ritual authenticity is wonderfully gutted as
against the paper to create space, evincing a Paci cuts the heartstrings that the moving
vigour that communicates urgency. He sticks a image finds so easy to pull.
half-eaten sandwich into Hovering (1976), a
reference to bodily functions and needs that i i should say the ‘narrative moving image’,
doubt Johns would tolerate. The dry surfaces because video used otherwise, most often as
and layered, wilfully obscure and self- documentary, appears devoid of manufactured
referential iconography of his 1980s and 90s emotion. Which is what i find so perplexing
work confront the viewer with a quirky and about (5) NiNa KaTcHaDouRiaN’s recent video
ungenerous world in which he has no place. The installation Zoo (2007), at the sara Meltzer
almost ecstatic beauty of his drawing Edisto Gallery – indeed it’s what i find perplexing
(1962), which features his foot, suggests the about much of Katchadourian’s work: it’s all
magnitude of the passion that has been lost. very well produced and conceptually sound, and
is rarely formulaic, but it lacks – for want
(6) of a better word – bite.
ToM WesselMaN Drop-Out,
Maxwell Davidson Gallery Here we have a roomful of monitors and
projections on all four walls that reveal
The works on paper in this over-hung show, various different animals in their manufactured
studies for shaped canvases on view at Yvon habitats. The installation has been arranged
lambert in chelsea, prove that Wesselman could in such a way as to recreate our imagined
draw. Done during the 1980s, they are based on encounters with these live entertainments: the
the image of a reclining nude, small segments monitor with the giraffe’s head is up high;
of which Wesselman depicted while dropping out the projection of the penguins includes other
the rest of the scene. The snippets of visual viewers who keep getting in our – ie, the
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