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"These gestures are about freedom." A Childlike freedom attaining adult power, a cartoon friendliness abstracting its happy bludgeon of reality. The world to putty to whatever libidinal desire or dreams, placing Zebras dying in the Arctic. It seemed fun. An absurdism that borders on the psychotic, like Burden's childlike megalomania masquerading as glee, fun hides its stupid destruction of reality in which, above all, our dreams must be manifest.
See too: Paola Pivi at Emmanuel Perrotin, Chris Burden Metropolis II at LACMA, Henning Bohl at What Pipeline, Sadie Benning at Mary Boone & Callicoon Fine Arts