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Stefanie Gutheil’s painting is an expression of an interior world of the imagination. Through the deformation, distortion and even destruction of realistic, figurative paintings, the artist creates asexual creatures and monsters that possess a rare gift – they can escape from the omnipresent codes of uniformity. Gutheil’s work contain certain imperfections, which produces an abundance of contradictions, flaws and confusions. These are raw paintings that keep their rough edges while approaching their ruptures in a light and playful way.
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Somewhere between minimal human presence and the material excrescence of paint, between the deep-seated pathos of his subjects and the imagination taking flight, Séguin finds his own truth. You will find no fiercer critic of the status quo depravities of the mundane culture of hate than he. He is unstoppable, and fearless in his choice of subjects. But beware! There are precipices here. His paintings are like optic Ouija Boards. Peruse them at your own risk!
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China has undergone astonishing changes as it shifted into a free-market economy in what seemed a blink of an eye. With that came a new global order as the People's Republic of China, in the wake of its extraordinary metamorphosis-the second in the same century-stepped onto the world stage as a major power after decades of willful isolation. Its rags-to-riches story of material obsession is both social comedy and tragedy, exhilarating and politically fraught. Liao Yibai, a Chinese artist based in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, mulls over those changes in his shining sculptures-the better to mirror the world around them-with laughter and despair, with wit, skepticism, and originality, his tongue-in-cheek desirables in ironic collision-or is it collusion?--with the knock-off Dolce Vita they describe in which real and fake are interchangeable.
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Distinctive among the many noteworthy works by Chinese contemporary artists, the sculpture of Liao Yibai uniquely explores a child's views of America during and immediately following the Cultural Revolution. In a profound, thoughtful, yet humorous way, it demonstrates how the Chinese people imagined the myth and threat of America as the world's Evil Empire. The key to understanding the Imaginary Enemy sculptures is through the stories and narratives arising from the artist's memories and dreams.
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Nitsch's ritual performances conflate elements of Dionysian frenzy, of medieval revel and of oblationary mystery cults from a remarkably diverse range of cultures and historical periods. They also rely on the theories of Freud, Jung and Wilhelm Reich. However, it is on the traditions and practices of Catholicism - its theology, its rituals and the forms of its popular piety that Nitsch derives the most familiar - and therefore the most psychically resonant - elements of his Aktionen. Singular emphasis is given to the potency and efficacy of blood as an atoning sacrifice, as agent of transformation, of cleansing, of spiritual intoxication, and as a numinous substance of cultus or veneration.
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Upon viewing the painterly excess of Austrian-born artist Hermann Nitsch, for the first time, one may want to ask the following: What are these blood-stained canvases mixed with primary pigments trying to symbolize? After a few minutes with the work, it soon becomes apparent that Nitsch is not exactly a light-hearted provocateur. For those who have participated in his theatrical happenings at the Schloss Prinzendorf in northern Austria where his paintings are produced, Nitsch-who wears a black suit with a gray beard in the manner of Brahms-orchestrates something more than a conventional performance or installation. His paintings are the result of a massive theatre project, involving the coordination of many people.
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In discussion of one of the women featured in his new body of work, Garden of the Gods, Yigal Ozeri wistfully notes, "This is the perfect face of melancholy. It's such an intimate moment. She is remembering something." That Ozeri summons memory and melancholy within the same breath is not contradictory but complimentary, for the two delineate the extreme bookends of desire. Yet, it is not the desire to recreate a past event that defines the works as much as a meditation on the space between reality and fantasy.
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The Watcher Paintings are about vigilance, about apertures, about the act of looking and about healing oneself through acute self-observation. At the core is a studio window, through which he obsessively watches, day in, day out, in sunlight, shadow and moonlight, and is, in turn, silently watched by sphinxlike pigeons. His window frames another window in a derelict turn-of-the-century building, through which can be seen yet a third window; an image that is both urban and apocalyptic, banal and haunting: Hopper paintings as ghost stories. Ozeri spent 13 months minutely observing every nuance of this deceptively simple splinter of cityscape.
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"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet." -Sylvia Plath
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We are taught to never take anything at face value, to delve beneath the surface whenever possible, and somehow unearth full meaning and full appreciation. There are always those that will by nature extract a silver lining from anything and everything that to the rest of us appears lost. In his latest body of works on black steel, Piet van den Boog flawlessly succeeds at the seemingly unattainable task of taking melancholy, desperation and violence and finding in it not only beauty, but understanding as well as peace.
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