Sunday, July 1, 2012

Stop trending up!!!! its bad for art

Yeah we friends and shit at Josee Bienvenu is a perfect example of a gallery show that is trying to ride the hipster wave of coolness. I hate to be this critical of anything but this show is just an example of what not to do.  It looked like a bad grad school thesis show!!! With unimpressive text pieces, paintings off the internet referencing art in the digital age,  black exploitation pieces painted childlike with text trying to be clever and the piece to the left of post-its and spray paint.  This is all derivative of works we have all seen over and over again.  Please stop this non sense as show like this force young talented, and well educated artist to feel this is the kind of work to make if they are to get to show in Chelsea.  They are just recycling old ideas that at one point in history where fresh or challenging to the world.  Now the works seem to calling this time as the end of art.  The only thing worse was the show that opened at David Zwirner, on June 28th Stand Like the Hummingbird.  This show explored the same ideas presented as in the lesser show with notions of objecthood and gender and race politics in art, at least when the works at Zwirner where made they where in fact avant-garde.  There is always a good deal of terrable art in Chelsea, but when shows try to be at the height of critical discourse and falls shot as these two shows did it just leaves a terrible taste in my mouth as to the state of things.  I'm usually am a champion a Zwirner, but this show was a real let down for me for me .  I love many of the artists in the show, and after a year of very strong shows that have mostly been hung very well this one just seemed like a fire sale with very little for thought in its execution.

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