Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Art-99; a 99word review.

Mimmo Rotella @ Knoedler & Co. through July 31, 2009

One room contains 9 sections of layered bills or collages made to appear so, all 1958. The acidic colorization of some papers is naturalistic  in these abstractions. In another room most works are modified bills and enlarged 60's media clippings with hand painted shapes and subtractive collage. There are three JFK pieces, one from the Zapruder film. In two double portraits from posters advertising a Kennedy appearance a blank piece of corrugated paper covers the top of his heads, as if to bandage the wounds captured in the film. The image juxtaposition of photo collage serves political not surreal ends.

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