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The symbolist painter is useful to today in describing - as an instruction manual to - the awkward staging that connotes the intent to objects that make them be "brimming with significance." The effect so easy to recognize as a stylistic mechanism in painting but still bracing in sculpture. This Symbolic composition becomes a schematic for the stilted installation decisions that underpin the Object Oriented. See: “Being Thing” at Centre International d’Arte et du Paysage & Treignac Projet
See too: Group Show at Salle Principale, Michael E. Smith at Susanne Hilberry, Ian Kiaer at Lulu, Ian Kiaer at the Neubauer Collegium, Mathew Cerletty at Office Baroque