April 5, 2004
What does this say?
A friend that works as an editor at an art magazine pointed out this egregiously bad press release to me:
The exhibition will be comprised of three diptychs from the ongoing series Exquisite Corpse, begun January 1, 1988, and six examples from Homo Faber, the premiere of a suite of recto/verso works on paper and wood.
These two projects pivot on the double in a way that is reminiscent of the split infinitive—an ungrammatical proposition.
Both projects renegotiate allusion, body, continuity, diptych, discontinuity, fashion, figure, frame, genre, geometry, gesture, history, hybrid, index, landscape, making, monochrome, the new, oeuvre, palette, self-portraiture, and still life—among other characteristics and operations—according to disparate logics. The dissolution of "to be" that obtains becomes the occasion for embarkation.
Remember the 1990s British art collective BANK? This text makes me want to resurrect their faxback service. For what it's worth, this text announces the new show of Stephen Prina's work at Friedrich Petzel.