Friday, January 6, 2017

Richard Hoeck and John Miller at Meliksetian | Briggs


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The stupid comedy of our anthropomorphized figures meeting grizzly dismemberment cast down cliffs, their odd hollowness standing in for all the blood and guts that should be splattered. That we actually identify, sympathize, with them, these reflections we adorn our stores with. What use does a culture have for fake images of ourselves. The Doryphorous has a reason, an idealization, a mannequin, devoid of his saleables, none.


See too: Jordan Wolfson at David ZwirnerPeter Piller at Capitain PetzelJohn Miller at Institute of Contemporary Art MiamiJohn Miller, Dominik Sittig at Nagel Draxler