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March 03, 2006
David Pagel breaks from the safety of descriptive reviewing to give us an actual opinion.
“To walk into Haendel's exhibition of approximately 30 graphite and charcoal drawings and two black-and-white photographs is to step into a time warp. Everything interesting that has happened in art since 1990 goes up in a puff of smoke.”
You can read the full text here. Thanks to ArtMeat for the heads up.
Posted by Butter Gun at March 3, 2006 11:41 AM
Comments
BG thanks for this post. I have seen this article flying around on lots of blogs. It seems to go in tandem with a lot of things I have read from NY writers about ending the obsession with youth and artists right out of school. Well, not ending it--because a lot of artists right of school kick ass--but rather, striving for more balance between young artists, and those who have been around for a some years after school. It seems that David Pagel was chastising MOCA for not being a bit more critical in their choice--or maybe even for jumping on gallery bandwagon of fetishizing youth and hype over experience.
I saw the show--really didn't like the studio walls, really did like "risk over monopoly".
Posted by: elizabeth at March 5, 2006 12:50 PM
I thought David Pagel was known for the opinion or daydreaming with personal fantasies rather than informative descriptions.. although that review of his seemed to be laden with a lot more factoids than normal, albeit swung like a slugger out to make a home run or kill a young artist or something..
Posted by: kristin at May 18, 2006 11:19 PM
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