May 23, 2008
More weekend reading
My review of Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown's group exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery is now online at Artforum.com. An excerpt:
Walking through the show is an uncanny delight: Like an autofocus lens unable to locate its subject, one’s mind and eyes strive to unscramble the artworks actually present from those that are verisimilar copies. A 1943 portrait by Francis Picabia is centered on the image of a Donald Baechler painting of a dandy and some beach balls; on an adjacent wall, Malcolm Morley’s Age of Catastrophe, 1976, a large painting, seems planted in the middle of an even larger Keith Haring.
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