Thursday, April 16, 2015

Mitchell Syrop at Croy Nielsen & Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects

Mitchell Syrop at Croy Nielsen
Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects
(Croy Nielsen , Regen)

The artworld's relation to its signs can be confusing. Here one shouts its empty signs, a sound like empty metal struck, the other attempts to deplete its referent to nausea. Both a protest. Different relations to iconography. Both truisms, but of nowhere equal value. Cuffing these two exhibitions to each other to each eat the other, this is CAD at its curatorial finest.

see too : Mitchell Syrop at Midway Contemporary Art , John Baldessari at Marian Goodman