Saturday, February 28, 2009

Art-99; a 99 word review.

Peter Doig @ Michael Werner through March 14, 2009

The gallery contained three large apocalyptic landscape paintings. Two, facing each other, featured a central winged figure with skinny legs. In the third, a sublime blue potato fills the horizon over a red sea ("Mal D' Estomac").  One figure seems to be on a cliff overlooking an ocean, the other, down on the beach.  Both are titled "Man Dressed as a Bat." Are they a rumination on the Batman of popular culture?  Is this self appointed hero lacking a civilization to crave justice? They represent disillusion just the way a huge potato over an acid broth spells stomach ache.  

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