Friday, March 02, 2007

Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making”


(top)Courtesy of Philippe Parreno and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Philippe Parreno's "Speech Bubbles" (1997)
(below)Speechless: “Zé Carioca No. 4” (2004), by Rivane Neuenschwander.

Seems like an interesting exhibition where artist influenced by comics strip, cartoon and animation.
Cant tell if its a good exh as i cant look at all the artworks.
As the reviews from NYTIMES said
"Beyond the big solo retrospectives that MoMA handles with expert aplomb, too many of the museum’s recent exhibitions have a veneer of political piousness that limits and shortchanges everything: art, artists, the public and the institution itself. In MoMA’s efforts to go beyond a formalist, linear view of modernism, the museum often seems to confuse sincere political intent with genuine, groundbreaking artistic quality.
No wonder it ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. Art becomes a kind of one-liner. The viewer looks a little, reads a label, says “I get it” and shuffles on. If you are new to art, you don’t know what you are missing. If you aren’t, you feel had."
A little doubt just by looking at a few photos, is anything exhibit in MoMA are good? um...
Museum of Modern Art thur 11 june

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