Thursday, December 27, 2018

Past: Maria Lassnig

Past: Maria Lassnig

"It’s the ones that run near amok that are best... the subject-object problem permutes as prescient proto-version of Sillman’s bodies-that-matter imbued formalism, and many others..."

"explained well; Johanna Burton: 'an animated approximation of the homunculus replete with all manner of magnifications and obfuscations, ostensible distortions that operate—counterintuitively, perhaps—in the name of not realism per se but perhaps something like a corporeal existentialism.' or on Lassnig, Paul McCarthy: 'Francis Bacon does not know how to paint backgrounds.'"
So a note on the lighting, which Lassnig's is the cool bleaching of fluorescent "bright white." Tele-visual light. The light of the millennial gallery..."


Read Full: Maria Lassnig at MoMA PS1, Maria Lassnig at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen