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The Sorceror’s Assistant

After his Mexican adventure, Antonin Artaud longed to visit other cultures that still believed in magic. A Dutch surrealist had given him an ancient cane with thirteen knots, and Artaud convinced himself that the magic cane had belonged to Saint-Patrick. … Continue reading

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transmit and vectorize the ambivalent perception

Call it an absence of the realist impulse. With Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Eden, we see a sense of visual chaos that is all the more striking given our inability to comprehend a central theme. The tension, though … Continue reading

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banksy pranksy:you can banksy on it

Is it an elephant in the gift shop or an exit through the gift shop. Its fitting that Banksy’s movie is about “shop” and the irony is that this much embraced “modernism” is built on buzz and hype and its … Continue reading

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Vroom Vroom : mechanical symbolism by the mileage

Its the original Fiat 500. The installation piece  by Lorenzo Quinn features an almost 13 foot high child’s hand and forearm. Like a toddler giant Nephilim playing with a toy.The work alludes to the relationship between parents and their children … Continue reading

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An Abstract mask of the concrete: subconscious cache

It is a fact that nearly everybody, even the least observant person , has a precise, albeit mistaken, idea of what they look like. As a rule, they are dissatisfied with nature’s product. They may be unsympathetic to their reflection … Continue reading

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hollow figures: surreal importance

“The hollow figure of a human head…” is the way one dictionary defines a mask. But surely there must be more to it. What unkind fate has kept us from using masks in our own time? Why do we continue … Continue reading

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$ AS A READY-MADE : TZANCK You For The CHECKS

Conceptual art will soon be one hundred years old and it is arguably viewed with as much suspicion now as it was in 1917 when Marcel Duchamp first submitted a signed urinal for inclusion in an art show in New … Continue reading

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LANGUAGE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

By detaching art from aesthetics,Marcel Duchamp set it spinning on a different course from the one it had followed since the Renaissance. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been … Continue reading

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EROS AU SECRET:THEY ARE CURIOUS YELLOW ET JAUNE

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (Alphonse KARR, Les Guêpes 1849) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton examine how French culture in the eighteenth century  projected these new attitudes of lavishness … Continue reading

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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS

Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of  the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading

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