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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel

Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel
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Like injection molded dolls to the grinder, like PVC fetishists inside too-hot cars, like your makeup running from tears or acid rain, disfigured, de-gloving Barbie's arms, Homer's shotgun bursting his wife's face in makeup gore: Tyson's melting figurines. The violence done by painters. The destruction of the features by wayward strokes. A little loose green to cleave the face. Tyson's world is injected molded and dripping. Now crushing women under press. These the smushed faces of clownish, grievous, plastic hurt.


See too: MichaĆ«l Borremans at Dallas Museum of ArtLisa Yuskavage at Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisLuc Tuymans at David ZwirnerErwin Wurm at Kunstmuseum WolfsburgAndro Wekua at Sprüth MagersThomas Eggerer at Friedrich PetzelThomas Eggerer at Richard TellesKaoru Arima at Misako Rosen