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Friday, January 16, 2015

Martin Puryear at Matthew Marks

Martin Puryear at Matthew Marks
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A small shift in Puryear's formalism leaves it looking wildly less conservative as a superannuated contemporary moves reactionarily backwards to meet it, an unradical contemporary in which any Stadelschulite handed these objects, packaged à la mode instead of as craft, would look “fresh;" fresh as septuagenarian's handiwork.

See too: Transatlantic Transparency at Mathew ; Martine Bedin, Mai-Thu Perret at Fondation Speerstra