Thursday, May 3, 2012

Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan





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All I wanted was to be 15 and try to rail slide the sculptures in the gallery but not much more.  Oh wait Deitch did that like 10 years ago.  The Gillick show was just very confusing with large black vinyl works on the walls referencing medieval manuscripts juxtaposed with minimalist sculpture.  There was an over written statement for the show trying to explain what we where looking at.   Granted most of my posts are kind of on the smaller side, but if you are at the show pick up the statement, give it a good read and let me know what it's trying to say.  Truthfully some of the sculptures are ok if you are into work that has come out of Minimalism.   There is nothing one hasn’t seen before with the ground rails being the strongest works in the show.  I have a real problem in claiming Marxist inspiration for the work, as placing it in a gallery in Chelsea it kind of negates any firm connection to Marx.

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