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Dana Schutz: Stand by Earth Man
Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), 530 West 24th St., 212.989.7700, www.zachfeuer.com.
Through May 19.
No, no, no. I think she tried to pull off a Daffy Duck profile in her Mona Lisa, couldn’t, and then just wiped the face off not up to the task. Quack! Then she did another faceless figure [giving birth] – that makes it a motif. [The one cool thing about that pic is that the woman is looking at a painting of spread mountains.]
Now she’s put holes into the canvas! It’s a progressive motif, see, carrying over the stains, rust and ink spots in other paintings. Something about positive and negative space mon. All painterly and shit.
No.
Aaron Johnson: Hellhound Rodeo
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, 547 West 27th St., 212.244.4320, www.prischkafineart.com , gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com.
ThroughJune 16.
Talk about process. This guy is an inventor extradonaire. I won’t even go into the details of how Johnson does what he does. You sort of have to see it to believe it. I’m not overwhelmed by his acid colors, the netting and the ultimate look of his forms, but the way in which his paintings evolve and are built: cool!
Sean Landers
Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24 Street, 212.627.6000, www.andrearosengallery.com, j.bastien@rosengallery.com.
Through June 9.
Pretty words.
No Obstacles
Alec Wilkinson
The New Yorker, 4/16/07.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_wilkinson
The New Yorker has a gift for bringing seemingly boring topics to life in fascinating detail. Unfortunately this article took an incredibly exciting topic, parkour (free running), threw sand in our eyes and poured warm milk down our throats. Part of the fault here lies in that Wilkinson chose to focus on David Belle who purportedly invented the sport. Listening to this dude trying to be all enigmatic and shit makes me want to tie his shoelaces together.
The French have never excelled at sports. They smoke when they play soccer. They philosophize about sport. Not only do they philosophize the life out of thing, but they generally get it wrong.
Free running is about freedom. It is about the body in response to its environment in constant motion through that environment. No equipment, no apparatus [or rather everything becomes apparatus]—just a body pushing it through space.
Don’t waste time reading about it. And don’t waste time looking up David Belle. Just look up Russian parkour on Utube and you’ll get it.
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