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Mike Kelley: 99.9998% Remaining (Paperback)
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Mike Kelley: 99.9998% Remaining (Paperback)
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Mike Kelley's "Arenas" series of the late 80s and early 90s mark a
shift away from the artist's performance-oriented activity and
towards a new sculptural dexterity, in which cultural resonance is
elicited from an eerie reframing of everyday objects. First
exhibited in 1990 at Metro Pictures, the "Arenas" are comprised of
stuffed animals arranged around the edges of blankets (or
occasionally posed isolate in their center). Ten or twenty such
toys in such groupings might convey a cheery childhood picnic
scenario, but Kelley rarely selects more than five or six, and
places them carefully so that their cuddliness and their capacity
to comfort is entirely canceled out. Instead, we encounter the toy
as a commodity entity-a mass-manufactured product positioned to
enter into play but far from inviting it. Skarstedt's exhibition of
seven of the eleven "Arenas" is here recorded in superb
installation shots and with critical commentary.
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