I recently had the opportunity to see the Martin Kippenberger exhibition, the Raft of the Medusa, at the Skartstedt Gallery, which I highly recommend (with prejudice). Kippenberger has been an ongoing influence in the ways in which I think about art-making so I thought it apt to mention here.
A provocative review of the exhibition has been written by Chris Reitz for Art Agenda (http://art-agenda.com/reviews/martin-kippenberger’s-“the-raft-of-the-medusa”-2/). I appreciate Mr. Reitz's willingness to go beyond the usual dialogue of transgression and humor in Kippenberger's work and raise the concepts of sentimentality and misery from the underbelly of one-dimensional thinking that sometimes pervades contemporary art reviews and the fear of "a return to the tortured, starving artist, and . . . to the lingering specter of modernism". Thank you Mr. Kippenberger and thank you Mr. Reitz.
A provocative review of the exhibition has been written by Chris Reitz for Art Agenda (http://art-agenda.com/reviews/martin-kippenberger’s-“the-raft-of-the-medusa”-2/). I appreciate Mr. Reitz's willingness to go beyond the usual dialogue of transgression and humor in Kippenberger's work and raise the concepts of sentimentality and misery from the underbelly of one-dimensional thinking that sometimes pervades contemporary art reviews and the fear of "a return to the tortured, starving artist, and . . . to the lingering specter of modernism". Thank you Mr. Kippenberger and thank you Mr. Reitz.
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