Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Luigi Ontani at Kayu & Rafaël Rozendaal at Postmasters
(Kayu , Postmasters)
The sinister and infantilizing carnivalism of Höller's slide's exemplifies the mask that is "fun" art. The haiku's use their light and airy tic-tac cutery to ironize their ennui in contemporary tones, a verse to its unfun. Ontani's garish ornation play to their lurid Orientalist appropriation. 60's pop-art that explained that fun already contained its co-option, never to be seen by art again, that art precludes fun, and a thousand art objects like tombstones to its purity.
see too : Darren Bader at Kolnischer Kunstverein , Yuki Okumura at Misako & Rosen , Ugo Rondinone at Krobath , Pierre Huyghe at LACMA , Lily van der Stokker at Koenig & Clinton , Lily van der Stokker at Air de Paris
Labels:
Bali,
Indonesia,
Kayu,
Lucie Fontaine,
Luigi Ontani,
New York,
Postmasters,
Rafaël Rozendaal,
United States