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Rejecting his professor, Richter's, coldly specific subjects Hohn's landscapes instead descend toward their complete loss into Ross's soft vagueness, the oblivion of whatever cheese substance grows cultural memory (the kitsch landscape existing in everyone's mind). From the specifics of an actual living plant to gross bloated inaccuracy of "tree" for the expediency of a television audience. This hanging threat of a signifier's total loss to this cultural oblivion, becoming a cliche of a cliche or in the case of the Revision series - in which the artist meticulously remade paintings he had made before any artistic training - the self, but delaying it even momentarily, is its tenderness even at its own cruelty.
See too: Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner, “Atlas” at MOTINTERNATIONAL, Lin May Saeed at Jacky Strenz
