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Volume 79 of the influential international art journal "Parkett"
features Jon Kessler, Marilyn Minter and Albert Oehlen. In the
tinkered gadgetry of Kessler's retro sci-fi installations, we peek
through surveillance cameras to see our own image among his analog
programs crammed with detritus of all kinds. Kessler's vista of
(d)evolved cyberstuff is in a manic state of accumulation, as this
data-diving artist masters the ecology of pure information. Within
Marilyn Minter's fetishistic, flawless pictures, we find a painter
obsessed with the clear articulation of magnified sweat beads and
pore-smeared glitter. In each successive lip-smacking painting,
Minter sets out to perfect beauty's disguise, affirming both her
pleasure in fashion imagery, and an appreciation of its vulgar
mishaps--say, a drag queen's eyelashes clumped together with too
much mascara. According to essayist John Kelsey, Albert Oehlen's
collage-paintings "seem almost bored of their own shock-value." And
yet this artist, one of the most significant German painters of the
past 20 years, can make boredom look like a rigorous, if not
delirious experiment. Also featured: Spencer Finch, Gelitin and
Mark Wallinger, as well as essayists Paul Bonaventura, Mark
Godfrey, Glenn O'Brien, Katy Siegel, Andrea Scott and Pamela Lee,
to name a few.
George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature' presents the first
significant overview of Stubbs's work in Britain for more than 30
years and brings together 80 paintings, drawings and publications
from the National Gallery's Whistlejacket to pieces never
previously seen in public. Stubbs produced exceptional images of
animals and people throughout his career. These were a product of
his keen scientific eye and uncommon sense of compassion. Rather
than trust to history and the untested example of his precursors,
he championed doing as a way of thinking and deployed
picture-making in pursuit of reality. On the title page of The
Anatomy of the Horse, his groundbreaking publication that rewrote
our understanding of equine biology, Stubbs confirmed that
everything that followed was 'all done from Nature' - meaning that
it all derived from his own painstaking analysis of the subject in
front of him. George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature' accompanies the
major exhibition at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and the Mauritshuis
in The Hague and includes new writing on the artist by Nicholas
Clee, Martin Myrone, Martin Postle, Roger Robinson, Jenny Uglow and
Alison E. Wright.
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